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Call for Papers
International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections

DEADLINE: FRIDAY, September 14, 2007

Conference to be held in Dubai, UAE: February 21-24, 2008

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 at ssrc.org.
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu