The purpose of the Next-Generation Global workshops is to enhance our understanding and knowledge of our private and public spheres by providing scholars with an opportunity at an early point of their careers to deliver presentations to an international audience, to exchange opinions with their peers from various parts of the world, and to learn how to participate and communicate in an international academic setting. Our plan is to hold workshops annually for five years, and we are currently already approaching to our fourth workshop.

              This year, we aim to focus on the topic of “The Nation-States and Beyond: Private and Public Spheres under Globalization”. The fourth workshop will be held at Seoul National University. Both Seoul National University and Kyoto University have set up the corresponding organizing committees. The committees will organize both the Next-generation Global Workshop and the International Conference as in the previous years. 

              The Organizing Committee will arrange several sessions in accordance with the topics on which applicants will present. Please carefully note that the procedures of the workshop and arrangements are different from last year in the following application guideline. We look forward to receiving some highly qualified applications.

 

 

The nation-state used to be the core framework of modernity and development in the twentieth century. In social sciences, it became synonymous with society. It was national society that social scientists – in particular, sociologists, political scientists, and economists –theorized and analyzed as the taken-for-granted unit of civilization and social order.

Since the late twentieth century, however, the so-called globalization in almost all dimensions of human life --industry, labor market, culture, education, social movement, marriage, and so on --has challenged the prime status of the nation-state as the main unit of politics and socio-economic governance. Compared to the dominant role of nation-states a few decades ago, now the intergovernmental organizations, such as EU, are functioning as supranational unit of governance. Also international organizations such as IMF or ASEAN have become increasingly influential even on domestic policies.

On the other hand, the growing transnational or global framework of business, science, and political network, among others, has left increasing numbers of grassroots citizens even in relatively democratic societies disenfranchised from the mainstream economic and political order. However, it is also true that grassroots themselves are striving to globalize their life domains and personal networks in the process of ‘globalization from below’ – global education and international marriage being the particularly prominent indicators. Networks of international NGOs are constructing new forms of counter-governance across national borders.

However, the primary functions and authority of nation-states are not simply declining. For instance, they are still the central unit of social security, managing the matters of social inclusion and exclusion. Some of the states have also attempted to incorporate the process of globalization into their operational goal, often making globalization a fundamentally statist project.

Under these conditions, the private and public spheres of human life are inevitably being restructured in accordance with the reconstruction of relationships among individual citizens, families, communities, nation-states, and global entities. The 2012 Next-Generation Global Workshop focuses on the realignment of relationships among these different entities and its implications on the changing nature of private and public spheres of life. The areas of interests include, but are not limited to, social, cultural, demographic, familial, and historical domains of human life. Possible topics would be,

 

・State formation and nation building

・‘The social’ in the nation-state

・Intimate/public spheres under the (post-)Cold War

・Global governance and counter governance

・Capital flow, trade liberation and migration

・Globalization and the quality of life

・Social inclusion and exclusion

・Family, home and globalization

・Reconstruction of community

・Social safety net and the role of the state

・Public space of minority groups

・Gender, sexuality and nation-state

・Media and representation of intimacy/public spheres

  

June 24 (Fri)        Calls for paper

July 17 (Sun)                            Application Deadline

July 22 (Fri)                       Notification of the result on the applications

November 11 (Fri)       Deadline for the Submission of the full Paper (4,000 – 6,000 words) for applicants outside of Kyoto University

November 24(Thurs.)                  Next-Generation Global Workshop

November 25(Fri)       Next-Generation Global Workshop

November 26(Sat)      International Conference & Business meeting for advisors

November 27(Sun)     City tour

December 10(Sat)      Deadline for the submission of full papers for publication

February, 2012,          Publication of the workshop proceedings    

 

 

(1) Number of presenters to be invited: about 30 participants from GCOE partners and their advisors.

(2) Deadline for Applications: July 17th, 2011

(3) Eligibility: Ph.D. students, Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral fellows and researchers in similar stage of the career who are recommended by GCOE Overseas Partners. Those who are in full-time teaching positions and master students are not eligible. The Organizing Committee will screen the applications by candidates’ qualifications as well as the content of abstracts.

(4) Application form: There is no fixed application form. Please send the application to the Organizing Committee with a clear heading stating that you are applying for the NGWS 2011, together with the following information to: gcoe.nextgeneration@gmail.com

a) Name (as written on your passport*)

b) Affiliation

c) Title/ Position

d) Postal Address, Telephone Number, and Email Address

e) Title of presentation and an abstract (700 words)

*In addition, if you need to obtain a visa to enter Korea, please state your name, exactly as written in your passport and your nationality, gender, date of birth, and age.

 

(5) Successful applicants should submit their full papers (about 4,000 - 6,000 words) by November 11.

 

(6) The Organizing Committee of Seoul National University will arrange your hotel accommodation from the 23^rd till 26^th of November (check-out on the 27th) as maximum, and the Kyoto University Organizing Committee will provide the modest stipend based on regulation of the University (Applicable to only invited overseas Next-Generation scholars and the committee will announce in detail later). You will need to cover daily expenses such as food and local transport with the stipend or with your own funds. A round-trip air ticket, for the direct and most economical route to Seoul, will also be covered by Kyoto University. In case you extend your stay in Seoul or Korea, you should arrange additional accommodation individually at your own cost. The Organizing Committee CANNOT provide any fees regarding the obtainment of a visa and/or travel insurance. It is your own responsibility to arrange the visa application where necessary, and to acquire travel insurance.

This assistance does NOT apply to applicants from Kyoto University. For applicants from the Kyoto University, the Organizing committee suggests to apply either through Kyoto Erasmus Program or Gakkai Tokoshien Program for financial assistance when applicable.

 

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Contact: Organizing Committee of the Next Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University, Japan.

Please mark in the beginning of your applications: For attention: Dr. Kawabata

Please send your application to: gcoe.nextgeneration@gmail.com