Call for Papers: 18th Conference of Europeanists, Spain, June 2011

18th Conference of Europeanists

Organized by the Council for European Studies

To be held at various university venues in Barcelona, Spain

June 20-22, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

For decades, scholars interested in Europe have concentrated their attention on state comparisons and on the institutionalization of the European Union. As the second decade of the second millennium gets under way, we can no longer neglect the deep transformations in Europe’s society that have followed the joint processes of globalization and European integration. Transnationalization is the word that arguably best captures these transformations, for it encapsulates at once the broadening of the Europeans’ economic, political, social, and cultural experiences that has taken place in the last two to three decades. The rise of these transnational pressures and vectors of political pressure stands in tension with the political organization oriented around nation-states in Europe. Transnationalization on today’s scale is a recurring phenomenon in Europe’s history, however, and it works as well as a metaphor for previous periods in which local walls were destroyed and replaced by economic, political and social re-organization on a greater geographic scale. In examining today’s transformations we are thus well-advised to revisit previous processes of transnationalization, so that the analysis of the present helps us understand the past and the analysis of the past helps us illuminate the present.

For the 2011 conference, the Council for European Studies (CES) welcomes proposals for panels, roundtables, book discussions and individual papers on the study of Europe broadly defined. This year, for the second time, we are also entertaining the submission of panel clusters around a theme, giving participants the opportunity to create a mini-symposium within the conference (please no more than 4 panels per theme). Each panel proposal will be reviewed individually by the Program Committee, and each panel belonging to a cluster will be acknowledged as such in the conference program.

We encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines; in particular, we welcome panels that combine disciplines, nationalities, and generations. The Committee will accept only two submissions per person. Panel proposals need to be submitted stating a chair and a discussant (can be the same person).

The Council for European Studies fosters and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, special events, and awards. The Council´s international conferences bring together scholars from a multitude of countries and a variety of fields for discussion and interdisciplinary exchange.

Deadlines and Submission Procedures: Please submit all your proposals on the conference website between September 1, 2010 and October 10, 2010. Note that each panel proposal must include abstracts for all individual papers, as well as a general description, a chair and a discussant.

More information on the conference will be available on the CES website www.ces.columbia.edu and in upcoming issues of the CES newsletter. You may subscribe to the newsletter here:

http://www.ces.columbia.edu/members/indiv_members.html

Cathie Jo Martin, CES Chair
Boston University

Pepper Culpepper, Program Co-Chair
European University Institute

Juan Díez Medrano, Program Co-Chair
IBEI - Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals