Upcoming Conferences and Meetings in Europe

Prague, Czech Republic

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD 2008) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Population and Development, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

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Prague, Czech Republic

The International Conference on Business and Economics (ICBE 2008) aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Business and Economics, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.

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Preston, UK, United Kingdom

This interdisciplinary conference will break new ground by exploring questions of identity as they relate to teaching, research, moves between disciplines or even professions, career and lifecourse transitions and public and private identities. Contributions from all disciplines/methodologies welcomed.

We encourage a variety of methodologies, from qualitative educational/sociological research to textual or visual approaches. Presentations can include texts, objects, interview material, posters, photos, podcasts, blogs, performance or films to represent and explain your identities. We welcome both traditional and more creative approaches.

Contact: Emma Kelly, University of Central Lancashire <eakelly1@uclan.ac.uk>

Manchester, United Kingdom

Representations of 'Islam' have a profound influence on political cultures and national identities, as well on attitudes to immigration, security and multiculturalism. The complexity of the notion of 'Islam' and the heterogenous responses that it elicits are such that there is no uniform approach to its representation and social construction. The conference addresses this complexity by treating the comparative dimension of recent representations of Islam, encompassing different nations, political institutions, media institutions and cultures. The conference will be primarily concerned with the press, television, radio, film and the interney, but may include other channels of communication, such as translations, speeches or pamphlets, political discourse,and the visual arts.

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Brighton, UK, United Kingdom

It is widely assumed that it is simply self-evident that democracy is the best system of government that anyone has yet devised: admittedly imperfect, but better than anything else. But why? What exactly does democracy have to recommend it? What are the assumptions that lie behind democracy? And what sort of democracy are we talking about? Is representative democracy the ideal form of democracy? Is it the best guarantor of freedom? How does democracy understand freedom? Are there any plausible alternatives either to democracy itself or to representative democracy? And what might thinking about alternatives suggest about the sort of polities into which we might organise ourselves? Does the state remain the zenith of political organisation? And what might the implications be for the organisation of political life, and for democracy in particular, of the growth of corporate power and of corporate forms of organisation? We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to people working in, among other areas, philosophy, political theory, politics, sociology, international relations, cultural studies, history, government and law.

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