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CFP: CONFERENCE AFRICA-ASIA AND THE WORLD; WHAT RELATIONS FOR GLOBAL PEACE, JUSTICE, PROSPERITY AND SUSTAINABILITY?


Africa-Asia And The World:

What Relations For Global Peace, Justice, Prosperity And Sustainability?, 

International and Inter-Trans-Disciplinary Offline and Online Conference


International and Inter-Trans-Disciplinary Offline and Online Conference of: Inauguration of African-Asian and International Studies Institute AFRASI; Commemoration of the 65th Anniversary of the 1958 Accra All-African People’s Conference Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, December 13-15, 2023 


INTRODUCTION

At the beginning of the new millennium, Africa remains a place where economic, geopolitical, and cultural interests from all over the world converge. Diverse summits with Africa have been organized regularly to shape the exchanges of the continent with global players (China-Africa/FOCAC, Japan-Africa/TICAD, India-Africa, Korea-Africa, Turkiye-Africa, Iran-Africa, Indonesia-Africa, Regular Commemorative Conferences of the Asian-African Conference, USA-Africa, EU-Africa, etc.). Another proof of the continent's importance on the world stage is the increasing presence of Asian countries such as China, India and Japan, or the return of historically relevant players such as Russia, not to mention the attempts of former colonizing powers to maintain their influence. Thus, the suspicious views of relations between Africa and Asia (especially China) and Eurasia (especially Russia) presented in the Western mainstream media do not do justice to the historical ties between Africa and Asia/Eurasia since at least the Bandung Conference (April 1955) characterized by their common struggles against colonialism and for independence.

Several points of convergence make it fair to focus on the Africa-Asia tandem. From a historical point of view, these are the continents that, despite European colonial ambitions, have retained their demographic and cultural bases, unlike other areas such as America and Australia, where colonial conquest and occupation were accompanied by the genocide of indigenous peoples, the suppression of their cultures and the installation of European culture, and where the descendants of colonial rulers and European immigrants continue to rule the areas to the present day. Moreover Africa and Asia shared common painful experiences of being colonized by European imperial power and common struggles for their independence at the same historical period (19th-20th centuries). In a world marked by global and diverse crises, Africa, and Asia, being distinctive in term of civilization from Western-dominated ones, have the potential to offer alternatives for rethinking their relationship with the world, based on imaginations, cultures, and development models different from the Western-led globalization. Considering demographic growth, projections predict that 80% of the world's population will be in Africa and Asia by the end of this century; this could be seen as a problem but also as an opportunity to take advantage of a tremendous human capital for the development of Asia and Africa, and concomitantly of the world. In economic terms, Asia has become Africa's leading trading partner. The search for new economic and political partners, particularly in Africa, signals that both continents will strengthen existing ties and find new avenues for cooperation. Convergence between Asia and Africa is also clear since they are confronted with common challenges, which includes poverty eradication and creation of social justice, security issues, the management of ethnic and religious diversity, and exploitation of natural resources for sustainable development and prosperity of people.

The international and inter-trans-disciplinary conference "Africa-Asia and the World: What Relations for Global Peace, Justice, Prosperity and Sustainability?" aims to reflect on these relations between Africa and Asia, as well as those between the African-Asian tandem and the rest of the world. Based on the diversity of approaches and disciplines of the speakers, this conference will be an opportunity to better understand and recommend policies of political, economic, and cultural relations to be developed between Africa and Asia, and with the rest of the world, to build a common future, based on more peace, justice, prosperity and sustainability.


ISSUES

The followings are non-exhaustive issues expected to be raised in the conference:
  • Before and beyond hegemony of the West: what were and will be Africa-Asia relations?
  • Africa-Asia and Africa-Eurasia: what convergence and what divergence?
  • Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America: do they continue to be the peripheries of the West?
  • Africa-Asia Business Development: what challenges and what perspectives?
  • MSME (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) in Africa and Asia: what role in national economy and what mutual exchanges are possible?
  • BRICS summit in Africa: what impacts on Africa?
  • NAM, BRICS, Africa, Asia and Latin America: what synergy for a global restructuring?
  • The West and Asia in Africa: what interests and what risks for Africa?
  • The summits of China-Africa, India-Africa, Japan-Africa, Korea-Africa, Turkiye-Africa, Iran-Africa, Indonesia-Africa, EU-Africa, USA-Africa: what perspectives for Africa?
  • FESPACO and BIFF (Busan International Film Festival): what relations are mutually and globally beneficial?
  • African, Asian and American Tropical Forests: what challenges and perspectives for economy and ecology?
  • Black-lives-matter: racism against African and Asian in the West, does it continue?
  • Tradition, Culture and Religion: what role in patriarchy and gender issues?
  • Indigenous and Imported Religions: what challenges and what perspectives for a peaceful co-existence or fusion?
  • Languages and Nations: what place for former colonial languages in national independence and sovereignty?
  • The Afrodescendant in America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Pacific and Oceania: who are they and what do they become?
  • Demography, Migration, Urbanisation, Ruralisation: what planning and what mitigation?
  • The G20 and the 20 poorest countries in the world: what relations?
  • The G20 Summits: what impacts on Africa?
Other relevant issues will be welcome.


OFFLINE AND ONLINE PARTICIPANTS

The conference encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences...) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements...) as well as artists, writers, journalists and activists of social and solidarity movements, based in diverse geographical areas (North, South, East, West, Central AFRICA; North, Central, South AMERICA; the CARIBBEAN; AUSTRALIA; North, East, West, Central, South and Southeast ASIA; Central, Eastern, Southern, Northern, Western EUROPE; RUSSIA, PACIFIC, OCEANIA...).


GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTER CANDIDATES

The selection of presenters is based on the abstract and the basic personal data of the presenter candidates in respect to the following dates:
  1. Deadline of abstract (200-300 words) submission: June 30, 2023
  2. Deadline of full paper (2000-3000 words / 5-6 pages) submission: August 31, 2023
  3. Notification for the selected presenters: progressively from June 2023. The earlier an abstract is submitted, the earlier its author will get notified, which is important for a travel planning.
The abstract is to be submitted online here.


FINANCING

The organising committee does not provide travel grant to any participant. The presenters as well as simple participants of the conference are supposed to find the necessary fund for their own participation (visa, international and national transport, accommodation).


Contact Info:

Darwis Khudori, Faculty of International Affairs, University Le Havre Normandy, France

Contact Email:

secretariat-afrasi@e-group.bandungspirit.org

CICLO DE CONFERENCIAS VIRTUALES: DIÁLOGOS IBEROAMÉRICA-COREA


Diálogos Iberoamérica-Corea,

Ciclo de conferencias virtuales


Se trata de un ciclo de seis conferencias virtuales, a través de la plataforma Zoom, una por mes, desde marzo hasta noviembre de 2023.

Existe una tradición de colaboración entre instituciones educativas de América Latina y España en torno a los estudios asiáticos. Se han desarrollado diferentes acciones a lo largo de los años que han posibilitado el intercambio de experiencias y la movilidad de estudiantes y docentes. Sin embargo, estas iniciativas han estado sujetas también a cambios de rumbo de las políticas nacionales y regionales que han determinado la secuencia de ciclos recurrentes de acercamiento y distanciamiento. La estrategia de triangulación España-Latinoamérica-Asia ha transitado desde finales del siglo XX entre las dimensiones del mito y la realidad, reflejando diferentes momentos de reactivación que no han llegado a consolidar un escenario iberoamericano sólido para las posibilidades de relación multifacética con Asia oriental, y, en especial, con países como Corea del Sur, que protagonizan fórmulas dinámicas de convertir la globalización en oportunidad para el desarrollo económico, cultural, político, geoestratégico, etc.

La conformación de una masa crítica creciente facilita y exige, también, la concreción de un proyecto transatlántico que aúne los esfuerzos académicos y empíricos desde diferentes unidades universitarias interesadas en definir una aproximación específicamente iberoamericana en los estudios coreanos contemporáneos.

Coordinador académico: 
Horario:
  • 17:00 – 19:00 (en Madrid)
  • 10:00 – 12:00 (en Ciudad de México)
* ACTIVIDAD GRATUITA

Objetivos:
  • Generar un espacio iberoamericano para el estudio de las relaciones de Corea del Sur con España y Latinoamérica para conocer, compartir y comprender lo que hacemos, estudiamos y enseñamos sobre Corea.
  • Definir un modo iberoamericano específico de aproximación a los estudios coreanos, que recoja las influencias y elementos singulares de la región y las maneras de pensar las relaciones derivadas.
  • Facilitar una comprensión académica precisa de las particularidades iberoamericanas para las interacciones económicas, tecnológicas, socioculturales, comerciales, etc., con la República de Corea.
  • Así mismo, difundir las investigaciones y publicaciones que se han generado y generan desde ambos lados del Atlántico, con el apoyo, debate e intervención de expertos de otras latitudes.

PROGRAMA

Certificados:

La participación de alumnado UMA, en el 80% del cómputo total de duración de todas las sesiones, da derecho a la obtención de un certificado de participación y aprovechamiento expedido por la Universidad de Málaga, firmado por el Rector, con reconocimiento de los estudios a efectos de cómputo para la obtención de títulos universitarios oficiales en la Universidad de Málaga.

En el caso de alumnado externo a la UMA, la constancia de participación se realizará por parte de la FGUMA, con la exigencia del mismo porcentaje de asistencia del 80% del cómputo total de duración de todas las sesiones.



Contacto

Correo electrónico: proyectos@fguma.es / ceit@fguma.es

Teléfono: 951 952 734

CFP: VERGE STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS ISSUE 10.1



Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 10.1:

Special Issue: brown/ness(es)


Edited by Neelofer Qadir (University of North Carolina Greensboro), Naveen Minai (University of Toronto), and Tina Chen (Penn State).

Deadline: August 15, 2022

Feeling brown, feeling down. Feeling down, being brown. A name for law, a name for affect, a name for ontology, a name for relation, a name for not relation, a name for antagonism, a name for empire(s), a name for capital, a name for an accusation, a name that can be convenient, a name that does not work, a name that can stop working, a name for shades, a name for fantasy.

This proposed special issue considers both when brown might be useful and may be used to do the work of relation, inquiry, theory—and when brown does not work (Macharia 2013, 2016, 2019). Crucially, we reorient questions about brown and brownness away from frames centered in the continental northern Americas (Prashad 2000, Bald 2013) — and the American academy, and borders thereof in particular. We turn towards sites, relations, and geohistories imagined through terms such as (but not limited to) Indigenous, Afro-Asia, Asian- and/or African Latin America (Kim 2017, Kantor 2018), Indian Ocean, Global Asias, Inter-Asia, and more (Chen 2010). We think through how brown is shaped and weighted by different cartographic modes, for example, the Levant, Latin America, Africa, and archipelagos across Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.

We consider race and ethnicity as co-constitutive logics and forms of difference across different geohistories, including the ways in which these logics form, transform, transfer, congeal -- or not. We ask after brown, black, yellow, red, and white (and bright) as codes for difference, as metaphors of color made to matter through the matter of different bodies. We prompt reflection on how race, religion, ethnicity, and caste overlap and congeal into one another, troubling normative vocabularies of difference and relation.

We invite critical perspectives from scholars working in and across multiple languages, and provocations of brown as rubric, methodology, disorientation device (Ahmed 2006). Submissions might explore the politics that brown/ness(es) are heavy with, and their attendant contradictions, confusions, and frictions, including those between. Writers may think through these terms as names for cartographies of intimacy, violence, capital, memory, labor, culture are shaped by multiple empires — Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Dutch, American, Russian, Safavid, Mughal, Ottoman, Qing, Byzantine.

Essays (between 6,000-10,000 words) and abstracts (125 words) should be submitted electronically through this submission form by August 15, 2022 and prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style. See section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide or chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style Online for additional formatting information.

Authors' names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author's name, address, institutional affiliations, and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author's previous work, for example, should be in the third person.

CFP: THE RISE OF ASIA 2021: 60 YEARS AFTER BELGRADE, WHAT NON-ALIGNMENT IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD AND FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE?


The Rise of Asia 2021: 

60 years after Belgrade, what Non-Alignment in a Multipolar World and for a Global Future?

CFP Extension to December 31, 2020


The Rise of Asia 2021 and pandemic

The pandemic has made our projects uncertain. Nobody knows whether it would be possible to organise our conference THE RISE OF ASIA on February 10-12, 2021. For that respect, the Conference Organising Committee has decided to extend the deadline of abstract submission to December 31, 2020. We hope it allows all of us to know whether it would be possible for you to come and for the Organising Committee to keep the conference going. We also think that, in case of cancellation of the February conference, it would be convenient to transfer the abstracts to the Bandung-Belgrade-Havana conference that will take place in Indonesia on October 25-31, 2021. 


Call for papers and for participation

International and Multidisciplinary Conference, Paris and Le Havre, France, February 10-12, 2021. The conference is open to individual and group paper presentations. Those willing to present their papers are invited to submit their proposals until December 31, 2020. See the guidelines for presenter candidates at the website.


INTRODUCTION

Both the United Nations and NAM aim to achieve International Peace and Security. The United Nations emerged in 1945 from a destructive World War, to “save future generation from the scourge of war”. NAM was formed in 1961, at the height of the Cold War, to achieve a world of peace and justice, with respect and solidarity, at the heart of cooperation and development.

[...]

We must bear in mind that the end of the Cold War has not diminished the role of NAM in the international system and its members cannot rest on their oars. Today the major task is to ensure that the aforementioned challenges are tackled with the same fervor of NAM’s earlier years.

It is important to also remember that the reality of our world is that developing countries continue to suffer from the protracted crises from the era predating the NAM. They also suffer the most from the ravages of conflicts, wars and disregard for international law, fueled by geopolitics. For these reasons, it is important that NAM focus appropriately on issues of respect for human rights and justice, sustainable development, and democratization – as these align very well with the Bandung principles, as well as the Charter of the United Nations.

[...]

We must focus particularly on ensuring that youth, women and girls can effectively participate in society. We also have to make adequate provision for people with disabilities to function. Among other things, governments should facilitate and ensure that the girl child can get quality education.

If we will make appreciable progress, we must ensure the equal participation of women in the economic sector, as it is not smart to exclude half of the population from the productive sector. In communities that are in conflict, or recovering from conflict, it is important to include women in the reconciliation and peace building efforts (H.E. Tijjani Muhammad Bande, President of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 24 October 2019, Statement delivered for the 18th NAM Summit, Baku, Azerbeijan, October 25-26, 2019, link).

The quotation above raises many questions, especially these sentences: “We must bear in mind that the end of the Cold War has not diminished the role of NAM in the international system and its members cannot rest on their oars. Today the major task is to ensure that the aforementioned challenges are tackled with the same fervor of NAM’s earlier years.” 60 years after the 1961 Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, the bipolar geopolitical order of the world has disappeared since 30 years, if it is counted from the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Yet, the Non-Aligned Movement as alternative to bipolarism continues to operate. It is the largest grouping of states worldwide after the UN. 120 state members of the movement continue to organise periodically their summit involving their heads of state or of government. The most recent one was the 18th and took place on October 25-26, 2019 in Baku, Azerbeijan. How come the movement continues to survive while the bipolarism as its “raison d'être” does not exist anymore? Is there any “hidden meaning” of “non-alignment”? Is there any “non-alignment” on other issues than “bipolarism”?

In his view, Samir Amin affirmed that Bandung and Non Aligned Movement were essentially, since the beginning, “non-aligned” to imperialism, colonialism and domination that now metamorphosed into globalisation. “The real story of Bandung and Non-Alignment that arose from it showed that the peoples of Asia and Africa actually seized at the time an initiative by themselves and for themselves. The reader will find in what I have written a demonstration that the Non-Alignment was already a movement of countries non aligned on globalisation in contrast to the globalisation that the imperialist powers wanted to impose on countries that had regained their independence, substituting the deceased colonialism with a neocolonialism.” He continued: “Non-Alignment constituted a refusal to comply with the requirements of this renewed imperialist globalisation” (Samir Amin, The Revival of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, May 2014, article published at several websites). It is in line with his theory of “Delinking” defined in short as “the refusal to submit national development strategy to the imperative of globalization” (Samir Amin, A Note on the Concept of Delinking, Review, Fernand Braudel Center, vol. 10, no. 3, 1987, pp. 435–444. Jstor).

How about facts and realities? Do the state members of NAM agree with the view of Tijjani Muhammad Bande and/or Samir Amin? Are the NAM state members “non-aligned” to globalisation? Does the national development strategy of the NAM state members reflect a “delinking” phenomenon? How are the relations between NAM state members with former blocs of superpowers: the West Bloc (Western Europe and North America) and the East Bloc (Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, China), past and present? What are the role and the place of peoples and other non-state actors, civil society, social and solidarity movements, academics, workers, trade unions… in this global geopolitics?

It is to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned Countries that those questions are chosen to be the main subject of presentation and discussion of the fifth edition of The Rise of Asia Conference Series. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…) as well as artists and writers, based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North, Central and South America, Australia, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Oceania, Pacific…).

More information.


Contact Info: 

Darwis Khudori

Faculty of International Affairs

University Le Havre Normandy

France

Contact Email: secretariat-masterasie@univ-lehavre.fr

URL.

CFP: CONFLICT AND THE SENSES IN THE GLOBAL COLD WAR: FROM PROPAGANDA TO SENSORY WARFARE



Conflict and the Senses in the Global Cold War: From Propaganda to Sensory Warfare

October 15-16, 2020. Berlin, Germany

Although a conflict in which military strategies and weapons of mass destruction were always on the “horizon of expectation”, the Cold War was to a large degree carried out by non-lethal methods. It was also a war of culture, politics, and (visual and sonic) propaganda. Therefore, it can be understood to a great extent as a war not only on the senses, but as a war through the senses. In recent times, sensory aspects of domestic and international conflicts have become a field of interest in both sensory studies and conflict studies, with their methods and questionnaires intertwining in fruitful cooperation. (1) Historiographical approaches include the study of conflicts from the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution to both World Wars, and these examine how wars as the most extreme form of conflict were perceived—and how war changed contemporary perception. (2) The central conflict of the second half of the 20th century, though, is still a blatantly unexplored area in terms of sensory approaches. (3)

CFP: FINANCIALISATION IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING ECONOMIES: MANIFESTATIONS, DRIVERS AND IMPLICATIONS


Financialisation in developing and emerging economies:
Manifestations, Drivers and Implications

Overview

The Special Issue aims to provide an assessment of the financialisation process in developing and emerging economies (DEEs). It invites contributions on the theoretical and empirical specificities of the manifestations, drivers and implications of this process in these economies. It encourages interdisciplinary work, both in theory and method, and is particularly interested in papers, which make a conceptual contribution to the literature.

The analysis of financialisation in DEEs is relatively novel (Bonizzi, 2013). It is rooted in earlier discussions about the risks of financial globalisation and liberalisation, including the Latin American Structuralist literature on the hegemonic role of the US dollar (Belluzzo, 1997; Braga, 1997; de Mello, 1997; Fiori, 1997; Miranda, 1997; Tavares, 1997; Tavares & Melin, 1997); the debate on capital account liberalisation and capital market integration (Cohen, 1996; Rodrik, 1998; Stiglitz & Ocampo, 2008; Strange, 1994); the Minsky-inspired currency and boom bust dynamics of financial crisis in developing economies (Arestis & Glickman, 2002; de Paula & Alves, 2000; Dymski, 1999; Kregel, 1998; Schroeder, 2002); and the critique of financial liberalisation and integration of DEEs (Akyuz & Boratav, 2005; Barbosa‐Filho, 2005; Crotty & Lee, 2005; Frenkel & Rapetti, 2009; Grabel, 2003; O’Connell, 2005; Palma, 1998; Taylor, 1998).

DIPLOMA EN RELACIONES COREA-NORESTE ASIÁTICO, ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA - UMA


¿Quieres formarte como especialista en relaciones internacionales y comerciales con el Noreste Asiático? ¿Te gustaría ampliar tus conocimientos sobre la cultura coreana?

La Universidad de Málaga, a través de la Oficina UMA-ATECH Puente con Corea, se complace en presentar el nuevo Diploma de Especialización en Relaciones Corea-Noreste Asiático, España y Latinoamérica. Este nuevo título, tiene la intención de formar expertos que puedan entender, analizar y desarrollar relaciones entre estas tres regiones, de forma que fomenten la interconectividad entre ellas.

El contenido del Diploma se ha estructurado en 5 módulos fundamentales para el máximo aprovechamiento académico por parte del alumnado, de una forma transversal e interdisciplinar. De esta forma, queda en la mano del estudiante orientar sus contenidos al ámbito profesional, en el marco de las relaciones Noreste Asiático-Iberoamérica, o adentrarse en el panorama de la investigación en Estudios de Asia Oriental.

Los módulos que componen el diploma son:
  • Módulo 1: Relaciones Internacionales y Transculturales.
  • Módulo 2: Las dos Coreas en el Contexto de Asia Pacífico.
  • Módulo 3: Relaciones Económicas y Comerciales.
  • Módulo 4: Industrias Culturales de Corea en el Contexto de las nuevas tecnologías.
  • Módulo 5: Investigación en Estudios Coreanos y del Noreste Asiático.

Información General
Modalidad: Online (directo)
Duración: 300h (30ETCS)
Periodo: desde el 11 de noviembre de 2019 al 5 de mayo de 2020
Preinscripción: hasta el 21 de octubre 2019
Matrícula: 22 al 29 de octubre de 2019
Horario de clases: de lunes a jueves, de 16:00-20:00h
Plazas: 30 estudiantes
Precio: 690€


Más información sobre el profesorado y el curso.

También puedes consultarnos en corea@uma.es o 951952773

DIPLOMA DE ESPECIALIZACIÓN EN RELACIONES COREA-NORESTE ASIÁTICO, ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA




La Universidad de Málaga ha desarrollado un intenso proyecto de internacionalización con Corea desde 2006, conectando con diversos agentes dentro y fuera de España, Y en especial con la Universidad Nacional de Incheon (Corea) y la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (México). La Universidad de Málaga se ha convertido en uno de los muchos agentes activos en la globalización de Andalucía y España con Corea y México. Desde la actividad propia de la universidad, la situación requería una reflexión académica de dicho fenómeno para comprenderlo. Por otra parte, en tanto que la internacionalización de las instituciones y empresas crea nuevas oportunidades de empleabilidad, se quiere ofrecer desde la Universidad un programa que traslade las reflexiones académicas a dichas posibilidades de desarrollo económico y profesional.

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