December 2:
In addition to this site, please check the following link for regular updates as we move closer to the conference:
http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/12/singapore-conference-update.html
ANNOUNCEMENT November 20:
As is normal, the program for Singapore has now been reworked somewhat to eliminate discrepancies, persons who have withdrawn etc. The revised program will be posted very shortly. Please keep checking the web.
Travel grants: We have more or less exhausted our grant monies at this time. However, we have NOT received acceptances from everyone. We have requested such acceptances and will be shortly reassigning funds from those who have not responded. When someone drops out --as has happened already--the money is reassigned to persons on our reserve list. Therefore, if you have received a grant but know that you will not be able to come to Singapore, please let us know ASAP. We will also email everyone in due course to request a formal acceptance or rejection.
Finally, please use the Chat Room for any valuable discussions you want to start.
ONSITE REGISTRATION
Note that there will be an onsite registration staff presence throughout the conference. Onsite fees are $50 for faculty and $35 for students. Valid ID needed.
IMPORTANT: Letters of acceptance were mailed to all participants at the time the preliminary program was posted. These letters should be sufficient for you to receive permission from your universities to attend/receive funding from them. On the other hand, if you need a letter for visa purposes (as Singapore requires for participants from some countries), please write to ISA (not the GSCIS) directly - you can write to Elizabeth Fausett at efausett@isanet.org. If you need any other kind of letter, please write to Elizabeth as well, explaining what you want.
Links to Information (use your back arrow to return to links):
Call for Submissions
About SMU
Singapore
Registration
Travel Grants
Hotels
Chat
Conference Program
SPECIAL INVITATIONS!
For the convenience of caucus members, this site will contain regular updates regarding the GSCIS conference, originally scheduled for Bangkok but now relocated to Singapore. Just keep scrolling down for more, or use the links above..
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Chat Room
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| Gathering, FGSCIS, Menton |
| The Global South Caucus of the ISA has established this group to provide a space for dialogue in the run up to the Singapore 2015 meeting. Please feel free to join the conversation. | ||
About this group:
A group to
discuss the logistics of the ISA Global South Caucus International
Conference, Singapore, January 8-10, 2015. |
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or email gscis-singapore-2015-conference@googlegroups.com.
Check out pics from the First GSCIS International Studies Conference in Menton,Southern France. http://fgsisc.com/photo-gallerie/
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Voices from Outside: Re-shaping International
Relations Theory and Practice in an Era of Global Transformation, January 8-10, 2015
Co-sponsored by Singapore Management University
Co-sponsored by Singapore Management University
The Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association (GSCIS)
aims to promote new thinking about the global south and developing Eurasia,
facilitate south-south intellectual exchanges, and increase the scope and depth
of collaboration between scholars interested in studying the global south in
general. In 2012 the caucus held its first Global South International Studies
Conference which brought together scholars and practitioners working on the
theme, Theorizing, Teaching, Research, and Publishing on IR in the Global
South. Following up on ideas generated at that conference, the second GSCIS
conference, to be held in Singapore (originally Bangkok), January 8-10, 2015, will have as its theme:
Voices from Outside: Re-shaping
International Relations Theory and Practice in an Era of Global Transformation.
We are particularly happy to note that this second GSCIS conference is being
held with the active sponsorship of the current president of the International
Studies Association, Professor Amitav Archaya.
The conference organizers are interested in thinking through four problématiques
in IR, and we invite papers and presentations that innovatively and
critically address them:
1) theorizing IR and foreign policy analysis from a
global south perspective (both in terms of the meta-theoretical debates as well
as the newer critical and indigenous thinking);
2) critically assessing-- in keeping of the on the
geopolitical theme of ISA’s 2014 conference as well as the regionalist theme of
ISA’s 2015 the state of intra-Global South relations--the role of the so-called
emerging nations, as well as the general relations between the global south and
the global north;
3) critically assessing the meaning of development
in theory and practice; and
4) sharing ideas about inclusive practices,
teaching and research in IR.
It is also important to note that the conference is being held in Asia
on the 60th anniversary year of the Bandung Conference which
represented the first formal attempt to bring Asia and African nations
together. As a result, we particularly welcome submissions dealing with the
relations between these two regions as well as across Asia, Africa, and Latin
America.
Some suggested sub-themes proposers may consider are:
The continuing assessment of
the lacunae in the development of an IR theory that is relevant to the global
south: What has been done to make the main IR
paradigms realism, liberalism, institutionalism, constructivism, critical
theory relevant to the Global South (including developing Eurasia)? Is there
such a thing as indigenous theories of IR? Where is the discipline headed? What
ideas or perspectives need to be integrated/overhauled?
Foreign policy in theory and practice: how is the north framed in the foreign
policies of southern states? And how is the south framed in foreign policy of
northern states? Are there any discernible patterns of generalizations in terms
of diplomacy and the practice of politics? Have we seen the rise of
qualitatively new policies in north-south or south-north relations in the past
decade? Can we talk about new strategies in global relations? In terms of
scholarship, what is the status of theory and research in foreign policy
analysis that seeks to include Global South perspectives? What new ideas are
worth sharing? What new approaches have been developed?
Situating the global south within
a transformed global community: In the midst of the ongoing discussions on systemic transformation,
such as the rise of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) and the
formation of the G20, where does the global south as a whole stand? What new
patterns can be discerned in relations between the north and south? What do the practices and experiences of the
so-called emerging nations—certainly not all positive--portend for their
sustainable rise as well as the collateral rise of other global south nations? What
kind of security challenges have impacted systemic transformation? With respect
to regionalism, what strategies are
leading regional nations adopting to achieve influence? What conflicts have
arisen? What patterns can we discern in regional transformations towards closer
economic and security architectures? What lingering challenges are there to
standardizing and bureaucratizing regional relations – i.e. to desecuritize and “normalize” these relations? What is the interface between regionalism and
globalization? What has happened so far, and what is the prognosis for
south-south collaboration, which was so touted in the 1960s and 1970s and was represented most vividly by the Non-Aligned
Movement and the establishment of the G77? What,
in particular, have been the patterns of relations between Asia and Africa,
Asia and Latin America since Bandung?
Development: What conceptual problems continue to inhere in
the notion of development? What changes in ideas and policy merit more
attention than they have so far received? How is development practiced,
researched, studied? What structural and human development challenges (poverty,
inequality, etc) do global south and developing Eurasian nations face
individually, in groups, collectively? How is sustainability to be achieved in a
constrained global economy? How is the global situation changing for middle-income
countries (MICs)? How does the rise of new private sector and civil society development
actors affect state- and multilateral-led efforts? How are small states, for example in the
Pacific as well as the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Africa, coping with the
demands of liberalization, globalization, climate change, and other
environmental problems?
Other: In addition we are, as always, open to roundtable proposals intended to facilitate networking among global south scholars and institutions on teaching and research on/in the global south.
We look forward to a stimulating conference,
Organizing Team -Bangkok
Registration will be via the ISA system (relevant information to be sent shortly). Deadline will be July 15th. Conference hotel will be the Pathumwan Princess Hotel.
Please start planning! Mark your calendars! (use
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UPDATE May 26, 2014
Dear Colleagues:
By now you will have received the Call for Proposals for Second Global South Caucus of International Studies Conference scheduled for Bangkok, January 2015. The ISA, the ISA President, and the GSCIS have for some time been monitoring the political situation in Thailand and, as a precaution, have been exploring alternative sites in case the conference needs to be moved. In view of the current military crackdown, which now includes the detention of politicians, scholars, and writers, we are urgently reviewing these alternative sites, and will be informing the membership of any venue changes in due course, certainly well before the registration deadlines.. Meanwhile, we wish to assure the ISA membership that the conference---focused as it is on the some of the most important issues and ideas about an inclusive IR —will be held as planned in January. The deadline for submission of proposals has not changed (July 15). Go to http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCISBangkok2015/Submissions.aspx to submit. To keep up to date you may also wish to periodically check the GSCIS blog at http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/preliminary-information-on-second.html and/or follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/isa.gsc). We thank you for your inquiries and enthusiastic responses to the Call for Proposals. We are convinced that this will be a seminal and very productive event for the GSCIS and the ISA, and we look forward to the traditional fruitful and free exchange of academic ideas at GSCIS 2015.
Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, Chair Global South Caucus
Amitav Acharya, President, ISA
Tom Volgy Executive Director,ISA
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Sections and caucuses are invited to sponsor two panels for the Global South International Studies Conference 2015 to
be held in Asia January 8-10, 2015. .More information
on the event can be found at the following ISA site: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCISBangkok2015.aspx.
Paper and panel proposals are now being accepted with a July 15, 2014 for submission. Additional conference details can be found at: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCISBangkok2015.aspx
Please share this call and opportunity with your section's membership. Ask that they submit their complete panel details via the submission system in place on the conference webpage. As section chair, we ask that you communicate the titles of the two panels to be included on the program for your section with the Conference Director, Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner at Bangkok@isanet.org.
Of course, members of your section are welcome to submit additional panel and paper proposals for consideration beyond these two sponsored-section panels but at this time, we can only guarantee acceptance of two sponsored panels per section.
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Update June 9, 2015
Dear Caucus members:
Many of you have been somewhat anxiously awaiting our
decision as to a change of venue for the GSCIS conference scheduled to be held
in Bangkok in January 2015. As everyone is aware, the military has taken
control of Thailand and the space for free and open discussion, including
academic interchange, has been narrowed considerably. We do wish the very best outcome for our global south academic friends as the situation evolves.
We are now able to
announce that the venue has been changed to nearby Singapore. Our new host will
but the Singapore Management University which has graciously not only
stepped into the breach but also has contributed added funds to host this
important conference. We are delighted to be able to transfer the site to Singapore. Singapore is a culturally vibrant
country (three major cultural groups) and there is much potential for stimulating discussions on
alternative pathways to growth and development (East Asian models), regionalism and security
in Asia and beyond, the practice of diplomacy, global governance,
constructivist approaches and many more areas of IR. Indeed, many global south watchers (including my colleagues long ago in my edited Caribbean in the Pacific Century) have debated the relevance of Singapore's experience to the rest of the south.
As many of you are also aware, the cost of living in
Singapore is considerably higher than in Thailand. W were very concerned about that and that is why we are also
delighted to announce that we have worked out very reasonable rates for
hotel accommodation, comparable in fact to the hotels we had initially
secured for the conference in Bangkok. Information on the main
hotel, along with the additional ones we had secured, will soon be posted on
the website and here, and all hotels are within walking distance of the convention
venue.
We thank you for your patience as we have continued to
carefully work out the mechanics of a change of venue. We always bear in mind
the imperative of attracting scholars and practitioners from all areas of the
world, not to mention all levels of the academic hierarchy. We have been
pleased so far with the response to our Call for Proposals. Please make
plans to attend the Singapore conference and continue to submit your proposals
either by clicking the old website link: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCISBangkok2015.aspx or the new one http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCISSingapore2015.aspx.
A reminder: the deadline for submission is July 15th!
A note about travel funds:
Some of you have been asking about receiving travel assistance.We expect to be able to offer some subsidies but will not know how many or how much until after you have submitted your proposals. Meanwhile you should write to the treasurer Seifudein Adem (adems@binghamton.edu) indicating why you will need travel assistance and how much you will be able to receive from your own resources or from your academy.
A note on institutional workshops:
Institutional workshops are intended to showcase, present, and share the work of global south universities, think tanks, and other agencies as well as the work of the scholars and researchers employed by these institutions. (The registration fee will be per participant, not one fee for an institution.)
Institutional workshop proposals should be sent directly to the Chair. Send a note indicating the sponsoring institution, what the proposal is about, who will participate, what the expectations are as far as audience is concerned, and what type of arrangements/technology would be needed.
The difference between this and “regular” roundtable or panel proposals is that the workshop is specifically designed to appeal to NGOs, research and non-teaching institutions/think tanks, diplomatic academies, etc. which want to showcase their work and/or get feedback from a scholarly audience about what they have been doing. You can have up to three presenters representing either the one institution or a group, although we will use “common sense” to determine if in an exceptional case, more than three are warranted. If, on the other hand, you wish to present a normal panel proposal with people from different universities, please use the usual ISA paper-proposal channel.
For example, you may know that a lot of separate institutional arrangements happen on the sidelines of the ISA conventions – a presentation by the Council on Foreign relations, for example, or Chatham books etc. The workshop proposal is intended to incorporate these into the actual conference.
Decisions on workshops will be made by the organizers separately, based on the criteria of relevance and significance to global south practice and scholarship.
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UPDATE JULY 2
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UPDATE , July 15, 2014
Dear Colleagues,
Given the overwhelming interest and response to the ISA-Global South Caucus 2015 meeting, we've decided to leave the submission system open through the weekend to ensure that everyone has had a chance to submit any last minute proposals. We've received a record-breaking number of proposals this year and I very much look forward to crafting an exciting program for Singapore. The system will still allow submissions through Monday, July 21st so be sure you get any final proposals in.
(You can submit your proposals at http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCIS-Singapore-2015/Submissions.)
Best regards,
JBW
GSCIS Singapore 2014 Conference Director
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Update August 18, 2014
Thank you for your wonderful response to our call for proposals for Singapore! The conference team, working from Qatar, Singapore, Panama, and the US is busy now putting the program together (despite their regular commitments on campus - thank you, team!). Pre-registration will begin September 15th, by which time acceptances will have gone out. Bear with us in the meantime if we are responding a bit more slowly to your emails.
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HOTELS
At this time, we have hotel information for you. This is a mirror of the ISA site:
Note: 1 Singapore dollar + 0.80 US dollars
Although we recommend the hotels above which will give you the conference rate, Alan Chong has also put together this useful information about hotels near SMU.
We are looking forward to this important event and we thank you for your consistent support for the caucus.
Check us on facebook.
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UPDATE September 8, 2014.
Dear Readers:
We (the Conference Team) know that you are very anxious to have your acceptance letters for the GSCIS conference Singapore in order to be able to make your plans in a timely fashion. As you can see from the ISA website, the deadline for our drawing up the program has passed by a weekend (the deadline was September 5). In part, the delay is due to the wonderful response we received to our call for proposals (thank you all!) and in second part, to the fact that we extended the deadline for receipt of proposals by a week.
Just to update you then: We have been working very hard and are almost ready to upload the preliminary program; at this time we are allocating slots to accepted panels. We expect that the process will be completed by Wednesday 10th, at which time ISA HQ will send out acceptances, with a link to the panels and other information (registration, travel and grants etc.).
We thank you very much for your patience and look forward to seeing you in Singapore.
The Conference Team
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UPDATE: October 31
IMPORTANT: Letters of acceptance were mailed to all participants at the time the preliminary program was posted. These letters should be sufficient for you to receive permission from your universities to attend/receive funding from them. On the other hand, if you need a letter for visa purposes (as Singapore requires for participants from some countries), please write to ISA (not the GSCIS) directly - you can write to Elizabeth Fausett at efausett@isanet.org. If you need any other kind of letter, please write to Elizabeth as well, explaining what you want.
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UPDATE September 11, 2014
Letters of acceptance have gone out. If you have not yet received yours, please be patient. HQ will send yours out soon!
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Conference Program
PROGRAM BASICS:
8:15a-10.00a:
GSCIS-Topical Focus Roundtable: Decolonizing the Teaching of International Relations.
GSCIS Book Launch and Roundtable: Diplomatic Strategies of Leading Nations in the Global South
10:15a-12:00p:
GSCIS Topical Focus Panel: Reconceptualizing Regionalism in the Global South (Amitav Archaya, Chair)
12:00p-1:00p: Lunch break; Graduate Students Informal Get Together. ALL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED. Please register to attend by December 15th by sending an email:iscschong@ntu.edu.sg. Sapphire Room, Hotel Bugis.
Registration
8.15a-10.00a: Panels and Roundtables
10.15a-12.00p: Panels and Roundtables
12.00p-1.00p: Lunch
1.00p-2.45p: Panels and Roundtables
3.00p-4.45p: Panels and Roundtables
5.00p-6.00p: GSCIS Award presentation. Closing.
We will soon be opening up a Chat Room for you to exchange information about the conference. Please refer to the blogsite http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-you-need-to-know-second-global.html for details. We have also posted some information there about Singapore itself and will continue to update that with pertinent information on tours, alternative hotels and so on. We also have some information there about out c-sponsor, the Singapore Management University.
We look forward to seeing you in Singapore.
Program is posted on the ISA website (http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCIS-Singapore-2015). You can always access the link to the ISA site through this GSCIS “all you need to know” blog at http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/preliminary-information-on-second.html.
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Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association
Second Conference
Singapore, 8-10 January 2015
Co-sponsored by Singapore Management University
Registration
UPDATE: November 12.
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UPDATE, October 8th.
Colleagues,
Pre-registration for the ISA-GSCIS Singapore conference has technically closed. However, a number of persons have requested a grace period because of various issues (late additions/substitutions on the program, specific time slot requests, time zone delays etc.). In order to be sure that we are accommodating everyone, we have asked ISA to leave preregistration open for a final week, until Monday 13 at 5 p.m. (Arizona time; 8 p.m. New York time). After that time, participants will be DEFINITELY removed from the program regardless of special issues, but of course, they can still late register and attend the conference. Travel grant applicants will be notified by that time as to whether they are likely to receive a grant or not, although the specific amounts may not be finalized until later.
Please complete your registration at http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCIS-Singapore-2015/Register
As always we ask that you keep up with conference events through http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-you-need-to-know-second-global.html (this blog) as well as the Isanet site. Note that we have opened a Google Chat room (see Chat link when you return to Top)) where you can discuss any special issues you are having and communicate with others about conference matters.
We look forward to seeing you in Singapore,
Conference Team
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UPDATE October 1:
We've had an overwhelming response to the release of the Singapore program and in the effort to be able to accommodate everyone, we will extend pre-registration through the weekend. Participants can still confirm their acceptance on the program by completing their conference registration before 5pm, Oct 5th.
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Pre-registration for the conference has opened:
UPDATE JULY 2
Planning for the GSCIS-sponsored conference in Singapore
2015 is well underway. We thank you for the stimulating panels and papers you have
already submitted. Please keep the submissions coming. This is a reminder that
the deadline is July
15th. Individual sections may have also sent out invitations
for submissions with an earlier deadline. We are expecting this to be a seminal
ISA conference, one of the very few held in the global south, and one located in
a region of significant policy as well
as scholarly interest today. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO DEBATE NOT ONLY THE STATUS OF ASIA IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY BUT ALSO THE STATUS OF GLOBAL SOUTH SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP WITHIN ISA. On the
lighter side, apart from putting together a wide variety of panels and plenaries, the Organizing Committee
is hoping to make your stay even more worthwhile
and enjoyable, by negotiating with the Singapore Tourist Board some
reasonably-priced tours for those of you wishing to see more of Singapore. We
will be disseminating more information on this and other matters on the website
as well as on the GSCIS blog. A reminder also that if you are an institution,
or work for one, wishing to publicize your organization’s research or policy
work, please contact the caucus chair directly, indicating what you plan to do,
who will participate, what audience you expect, and what special technological or
space needs you will have.
UPDATE , July 15, 2014
Dear Colleagues,
Given the overwhelming interest and response to the ISA-Global South Caucus 2015 meeting, we've decided to leave the submission system open through the weekend to ensure that everyone has had a chance to submit any last minute proposals. We've received a record-breaking number of proposals this year and I very much look forward to crafting an exciting program for Singapore. The system will still allow submissions through Monday, July 21st so be sure you get any final proposals in.
(You can submit your proposals at http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCIS-Singapore-2015/Submissions.)
Best regards,
JBW
GSCIS Singapore 2014 Conference Director
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Update August 18, 2014
Thank you for your wonderful response to our call for proposals for Singapore! The conference team, working from Qatar, Singapore, Panama, and the US is busy now putting the program together (despite their regular commitments on campus - thank you, team!). Pre-registration will begin September 15th, by which time acceptances will have gone out. Bear with us in the meantime if we are responding a bit more slowly to your emails.
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HOTELS
At this time, we have hotel information for you. This is a mirror of the ISA site:
Note: 1 Singapore dollar + 0.80 US dollars
Although we recommend the hotels above which will give you the conference rate, Alan Chong has also put together this useful information about hotels near SMU.
| Rating/No. of Stars |
Proximity to SMU, which is a "City campus" university
| Hotel Details (Rates quoted are from September 2014, the low tourist season for a single room for one adult, per day, mostly without breakfast |
| 5-6 | 3 blocks away |
Raffles Singapore; single
room from US$632.00. Book direct from hotel).
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| 4 | Directly opposite SMU | Carlton
Hotel Singapore (Bras Basah); single room from US$166.00 . Look on http://sg.hotels.com/hotels |
| 4 | 2 blocks away | Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore (Conference hotel) |
| 4 | Directly opposite SMU | Rendezvous
Hotel, Singapore; single room from US$240.80. Find onhttp://sg.hotels.com/hotel/ |
| 5 | 2 blocks away | Fairmont
Hotel, Singapore; single room from US$376.00 (EXPENSIVE)http://sg.hotels.com/hotel/ |
| 5 | 2 blocks away, almost opposite SMU | Grand
Park City Hall, Singapore, Coleman Street; single room from US$151.20; pleasant surroundings beautifully
landscaped, opposite from Peninsula Excelsior. http://www.parkhotelgroup.com/cityhall/default-en.html
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| 3.5 | 4-5 blocks away | Hotel
Grand Pacific (Bugis Street); single room from US$134.40; located on
a bustling road on a straight line from one of SMU’s lecture theatres/ Find on http://www.booking.com/hotel/sg/ |
| 3.5 | 3 blocks away | Peninsula
Excelsior Hotel, Singapore; single room from US$185.60; note that
there is a fair bit of construction going on near the hotel; rooms are quiet at
night though. Find on http://sg.hotels.com/hotel/ |
| 3 | 4-5 blocks away | Hotel
Bencooolen (Bencoolen Street); single room from US$96.00;
comfortable, no frills hotel but located off a busy road, almost a straight
line distance from SMU. Find on http://www.booking.com/hotel/sg/ |
| 3 | 4 blocks away | V
Hotel Bencoolen (Bencoolen Street); single room from US$92.00 (Same) |
| 3 | 3-4 blocks away | Strand
Hotel (Bencoolen Street); single room from US$76.00,
comfortable, no frills hotel but located off a busy road, almost a straight
line distance from SMU. FInd on http://www.booking.com/hotel/sg/ |
| 3 | Directly opposite from SMU | YMCA
@ One Orchard; single room from US$102.00; quite ideal for accessing
SMU, but located near a busy road intersection.
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UPDATE September 8, 2014.
Dear Readers:
We (the Conference Team) know that you are very anxious to have your acceptance letters for the GSCIS conference Singapore in order to be able to make your plans in a timely fashion. As you can see from the ISA website, the deadline for our drawing up the program has passed by a weekend (the deadline was September 5). In part, the delay is due to the wonderful response we received to our call for proposals (thank you all!) and in second part, to the fact that we extended the deadline for receipt of proposals by a week.
Just to update you then: We have been working very hard and are almost ready to upload the preliminary program; at this time we are allocating slots to accepted panels. We expect that the process will be completed by Wednesday 10th, at which time ISA HQ will send out acceptances, with a link to the panels and other information (registration, travel and grants etc.).
We thank you very much for your patience and look forward to seeing you in Singapore.
The Conference Team
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UPDATE: October 31
IMPORTANT: Letters of acceptance were mailed to all participants at the time the preliminary program was posted. These letters should be sufficient for you to receive permission from your universities to attend/receive funding from them. On the other hand, if you need a letter for visa purposes (as Singapore requires for participants from some countries), please write to ISA (not the GSCIS) directly - you can write to Elizabeth Fausett at efausett@isanet.org. If you need any other kind of letter, please write to Elizabeth as well, explaining what you want.
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UPDATE September 11, 2014
Letters of acceptance have gone out. If you have not yet received yours, please be patient. HQ will send yours out soon!
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Conference Program
PROGRAM BASICS:
Provisional Program:
ISA-GSCIS Conference, Singapore 8-10 January 2015
Co-sponsor: Singapore Management University (SMU)
Thursday January 8
9.00a Registration at SMU; suggested tours of Singapore.
5:00p -7:00p: Welcome, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium (NAKA)
Speakers: Professor Arnoud De Meyer, President, SMU
Professor James Tang, SMU
Professor Amitav Archarya, President of ISA
Professor Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, Chair of the Global South Caucus.
Featured speaker Professor Tommy Koh: " Will There be Peace in Asia?"
Speakers: Professor Arnoud De Meyer, President, SMU
Professor James Tang, SMU
Professor Amitav Archarya, President of ISA
Professor Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner, Chair of the Global South Caucus.
Featured speaker Professor Tommy Koh: " Will There be Peace in Asia?"
Prof. Tommy Koh is Ambassador-At-Large at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Centre for International
Law and Rector of Tembusu College at the National University of
Singapore. He is the Co-Chairman of the China-Singapore Forum, the
India-Singapore Strategic Dialogue and the Japan-Singapore Symposium.
Friday
January 9:
Registration
(This is a morning of special presentations for which we would like to maximize participation)
(All panels will be held offsite at The Village Hotel Bugis, rooms Sapphire and Quartz. )
8:15a-10.00a:
GSCIS-Topical Focus Roundtable: Decolonizing the Teaching of International Relations.
GSCIS Book Launch and Roundtable: Diplomatic Strategies of Leading Nations in the Global South
10:15a-12:00p:
GSCIS Topical Focus Panel: Reconceptualizing Regionalism in the Global South (Amitav Archaya, Chair)
GSCIS Topical Focus Roundtable:
South-South Networking: Sharing the Experiences of Female Professors from the Global South. ALL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED (not gender restricted). Please register to attend by December 15th by sending an email to: nanette.svenson@gmail.com.
12:00p-1:00p: Lunch break; Graduate Students Informal Get Together. ALL CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED. Please register to attend by December 15th by sending an email:iscschong@ntu.edu.sg. Sapphire Room, Hotel Bugis.
3.15p-5p: Panels and Roundtables (All sessions held at SMU: For rooms, see online program)
5.15-7p: Panels and Roundtables
Evening - Reception TBA; enjoy Singapore.
Saturday,
January 10. (All sessions held at SMU: For rooms, see online program)
Registration
8.15a-10.00a: Panels and Roundtables
10.15a-12.00p: Panels and Roundtables
12.00p-1.00p: Lunch
1.00p-2.45p: Panels and Roundtables
3.00p-4.45p: Panels and Roundtables
5.00p-6.00p: GSCIS Award presentation. Closing.
The provisional program with the panels and roundtables
for the Singapore conference is now available on the ISA website. As you
know, we have had a wonderful response to our call for
proposals and we thank you for your patience as we worked through the
change
from Bangkok to Singapore. The program reflects a wide variety of your
interests – from foreign policy and diplomacy to security and approaches
to
peace to economic and human development, alternative IR theorizing,
alternative
pedagogies and much more. Apart from the stimulating discussions and
debates
which we expect, we are looking forward to the networking opportunities
this
conference will present, given the fact that we are pleased to have
participants from Russia and Eurasia as well as Asia, Africa, Latin
America,
the Middle East, various parts of Europe and North America. We would
like to
particularly welcome graduate students from around the world. We are
facilitating an informal networking “buy your own” lunch for you.
Professors as well may attend the lunch to network with students.
At this time, we would like to remind you to please register for the
conference.The
deadline is October 1st . (see updates)
All persons who are
participating on the program must pre-register. Registration is via the ISA
website. (Here's a tip: If you begin the registration process but do not complete the payment, we will hold your registration for a while! Write to us if you need a small extension!) For those of you who are awaiting travel grant information, we are
afraid that we cannot award these grants until after the pre-registration
period. This is the normal policy for ISA. However, we will let you know ASAP
after that. Although we hope that very few of you will wish to withdraw from
such an exciting conference, please contact us immediately if you need to
withdraw.We will soon be opening up a Chat Room for you to exchange information about the conference. Please refer to the blogsite http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-you-need-to-know-second-global.html for details. We have also posted some information there about Singapore itself and will continue to update that with pertinent information on tours, alternative hotels and so on. We also have some information there about out c-sponsor, the Singapore Management University.
We look forward to seeing you in Singapore.
Program is posted on the ISA website (http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCIS-Singapore-2015). You can always access the link to the ISA site through this GSCIS “all you need to know” blog at http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/preliminary-information-on-second.html.
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Global South Caucus of the International Studies Association
Second Conference
Singapore, 8-10 January 2015
Co-sponsored by Singapore Management University
UPDATE: November 12.
Our policy regarding non-presenters is the
following:
Faculty can register to attend the conference at a
rate of 50 Singapore dollars and students from Singapore (with a valid student
ID) can register to attend the conference for 35 Singapore dollars._____
UPDATE, October 8th.
Colleagues,
Pre-registration for the ISA-GSCIS Singapore conference has technically closed. However, a number of persons have requested a grace period because of various issues (late additions/substitutions on the program, specific time slot requests, time zone delays etc.). In order to be sure that we are accommodating everyone, we have asked ISA to leave preregistration open for a final week, until Monday 13 at 5 p.m. (Arizona time; 8 p.m. New York time). After that time, participants will be DEFINITELY removed from the program regardless of special issues, but of course, they can still late register and attend the conference. Travel grant applicants will be notified by that time as to whether they are likely to receive a grant or not, although the specific amounts may not be finalized until later.
Please complete your registration at http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/GSCIS-Singapore-2015/Register
As always we ask that you keep up with conference events through http://gscis.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-you-need-to-know-second-global.html (this blog) as well as the Isanet site. Note that we have opened a Google Chat room (see Chat link when you return to Top)) where you can discuss any special issues you are having and communicate with others about conference matters.
We look forward to seeing you in Singapore,
Conference Team
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UPDATE October 1:
We've had an overwhelming response to the release of the Singapore program and in the effort to be able to accommodate everyone, we will extend pre-registration through the weekend. Participants can still confirm their acceptance on the program by completing their conference registration before 5pm, Oct 5th.
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Pre-registration for the conference has opened:
Here's a tip: If you begin the registration process but do not complete the payment, we will hold your registration for a while! Write to us if you need a small extension!)
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Other
The travel grant application process will open soon. Guidelines will be issued on the website. Travel grants are only for persons with pressing needs and no institutional support. Such grants carry an obligation to be present and active at the conference. Please make note of the separate funding available for those attending the WISC workshop (http://www.isanet.org/News/ID/1479/WISC-Call-for-Workshop-Participants).
As we move forward, we will also provide you with information concerning the plenary session, tours (Friday morning when no panels are being held), the luncheon (a small fee will be required for attendance) and other matters.
We are grateful for the overwhelming interest
displayed in the conference by scholars from around the world. Please be
assured that the team is working hard to ensure that you have a productive as
well as a culturally interesting time in Singapore.
Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner On behalf of the Conference Team
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UPDATE: October 31
We have now only a very short list of secondary applicants for grants and will advise persons on that list of their status soon. Meanwhile please note that you can find out how grants are handled by clicking the following:
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UPDATE: October 16.
We have been sending out travel grant offers to registered participants. If you have not yet received an offer, it may be because we are updating the list of registrants. We will send out all offers by month end.
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UPDATE October 15th
Our processing of the more than 46 applications for travel grants has been somewhat delayed by the need to match granteees against the list of registrants (non-registrants cannot receive grants). In addition, our treasurer, Prof. Adem, has had to travel to Mombasa for the funeral of Prof. Ali Mazrui. We are trying our best to accommodate as many applicants as possible, especially graduate students, persons coming to Singapore from relatively far away, and persons who have not received other assistance from their universities. This attempt to accommodate as many as possible will necessarily reduce the size of any single grant. We do not expect to be able to give anyone more than $600. Please bear with us as we sort out the registration list. We will send notices to the final grantees by Friday.
Conference Team
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UPDATE September 21:
Travel Grants
On the ISA website the original deadline for sending in your application for a travel grant is listed as September 15. Again, because we extended the original deadline for proposal submissions by a week and as a result sent out acceptances a week late, we are extending the travel application deadline to September 24th. Please be aware that we cannot at this point tell anyone how much your grant may be, assuming it is approved. As you can imagine, that will depend on funds available.
Thank you for your patience.
A note about travel funds:
Some
of you have been asking about receiving travel assistance.We expect to
be able to offer some subsidies but will not know how many or how much
until after you have submitted your proposals. Meanwhile you should
write to the treasurer Seifudein Adem (adems@binghamton.edu)
indicating why you will need travel assistance and how much you will be
able to receive from your own resources or from your academy.
Travel grants are only for persons with pressing needs and no
institutional support. Such grants carry an obligation to be present and active
at the conference. Please make note of the separate funding available for those
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Singapore: Host Country. What to Do, What to See (Courtesy: Alan Chong)
Singapore is an island state with limited resources and
physical territory. Yet it has made great developmental strides within the
span of one generation. It has done so in part due to its efficiency in
managing and promoting hub functions in a highly connected global economy.
Moreover, the island state’s diplomacy has abetted its economic role by serving
as an intermediary across a wide swath of Asia. Additionally, Singapore is
permanently scouring the world for high value industries where it can
pragmatically carve a niche through skill-intensive inputs producing a
disproportionate market impact.
Singapore is also a test bed for the social and
political impact of a world with permeable borders and large scale human
mobilities. Labour equity issues, the peaceful coexistence of citizens and
expatriates of various nationalities, and the challenge of providing balanced
welfare for transient and permanent populations are issues pertinent to the
continued sustainability of the governance of Singapore. Interestingly,
Singapore’s foreign and security policies also challenge conventional ideas of
national success being correlated to the size of one’s physical national
territory. The idea of governing an island state that draws benign power from
complex multilateral arrangements with great powers, the US, the EU, Asian
states and the Global South partners from Africa and Latin America, ensconces
the island state in a network of relative security that potentially offers
lessons in peacebuilding efforts in the rest of the world. Finally, in spite of
its limited physical territory, Singapore is constantly reinventing itself as a
tourist destination that showcases art and culture from Asia and the Middle
East, while also pandering to the gastronomic muses of a global orientation, as
well as sports fans of the Formula One races, rugby, water sports and city
marathons.
Attractions in Singapore are in no short supply. This
ever-expanding city is bursting full of fun things to do and see across its
many diverse districts and vibrant neighborhoods. From postcard favorites
such as the Merlion statue, Singapore’s iconic symbol, to more out-of-the-way
spots like forgotten temples and hidden parks, there is never a dull moment on
this little island. For those interested in cultural highlights, there are pop
music concerts at the Marina Bay Sands complex and Resorts World Sentosa,
classical and traditional Asian music spectaculars at the world renowned
Esplanade concert halls and the Asian Civilizations Museum at Empress Place.
For an insight into Singaporean artifacts, head across the street from SMU to
the National Museum where Singapore’s bygone days are captured in exhibits on
food, film history, popular culture, toys and ‘ancient Southeast Asia’. The
more adventurous among you might join the Night Safari and the River Safari –
both award winning attractions by themselves – at the Singapore Zoo in the
northern part of the island.
For more on Singapore's attractions go to :
About visas for travel to Singapore:
Visas are required for some visitors to Singapore.As with any ISA conference, you are responsible for obtaining a visa, if you need one to attend the conference. We note that in some instances, a letter may be required from our partner SMU. Please let us know if you fall into that category.
Meanwhile, here is a link to some pertinent information:
http://www.ica.gov.sg/page.aspx?pageid=96
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About Singapore Management University:
We are grateful to our co-sponsors, Singapore Management University, for filling in the gap after we moved from Bangkok.
A premier university in Asia, the Singapore Management University (SMU) is internationally recognised for its world-class research and distinguished teaching. Established in 2000, SMU’s mission is to generate leading-edge research with global impact and produce broad-based, creative and entrepreneurial leaders for the knowledge-based economy. It is known for its interactive and technologically enabled pedagogy of seminar-style teaching in small class sizes.
Home to over 8,300 undergraduate and postgraduate students, SMU comprises six schools: School of Accountancy, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, School of Economics, School of Information Systems, School of Law and School of Social Sciences, offering a wide range of bachelors', masters' and PhD degree programmes in various disciplines.
With an emphasis on generating rigorous, high-impact, multi-disciplinary research that addresses Asian issues of global relevance, SMU faculty members collaborate with leading international researchers and universities from USA, Europe, China and India as well as with partners in the business community and public sector through its research institutes and centres. SMU’s city campus is a state-of-the art facility located in the heart of downtown Singapore, fostering strategic linkages with the business and wider community. www.smu.edu.sg
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SPECIAL INVITATIONS
1) EVENT
GRADS: MEET YOUR COUNTERPARTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, NETWORK!
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GRADS: MEET YOUR COUNTERPARTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, NETWORK!
Graduate
students attending the Singapore conference are invited to network at an
informal lunch on Friday 8 January 2015. Details will be publicized later as
soon as our Chat Room is up and running.
1)Institutional Workshop “World Regional Studies: A New Framework for
Explaining De-Westernizing Global Development or a Non-Western IR Theory?”
2) Dear colleagues!
We cordially invite you to take part in the workshop “World Regional
Studies: A New Framework for Explaining De-Westernizing Global Development or a
Non-Western IR Theory?” at the GSCIS Singapore Conference in January 2015 (for
the exact time and place see the conference programme).
The workshop will focus on the following issues (with special emphasis
on the emerging world regions of East and Southeast Asia): What principles do
determine the functioning of non-Western/ Global South societies in particularly
and the regions of Global South in general? What is the role of emerging world
regions, practically and intellectually, in the reassessment of the meaning of
development? What theories and theoretical frameworks do better grasp the
ongoing global/regional changes? Shall Western IR be taken as a suitable tool
to do that or researchers need to develop regional-based theories or even
non-Western IR theories? How do Global South societies react to the
transformations of the global order? How do they adopt/reject the political
model of extra-liberal democracy? Is a Non-Western democracy possible? Can this concept fit within
existing West-centred approaches? What
should be the appropriate methodological approaches to address the issues
raised above?
In order to organize our discussion in the most effective way we kindly
ask those interested to join send a brief email to Dr. Ekaterina Koldunova (e.koldunova@inno.mgimo.ru) indicating your name, institution, areas of expertise
and the issues of particular interest among those posed above.
3) ROUNDTABLE: DO COME AND SHARE!
The
GSCIS has organized a special roundtable at the Singapore conference, entitled
“South-South Networking: Sharing the Experiences of Female Professors from the
Global South.” The roundtable will be held on Friday 8 January 2015 between
10.15 am and 12 pm. ALL ARE INVITED to
share experiences and help initiate a global south network of academic friends
helping friends.
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