Open registration to the "Pirates, preachers and politics" Conference
The Global Dynamics research initiative invites you to participate in the international conference:
'Pirates, preachers and politics: Security, religion and networks along the African Indian Ocean coast'
This international conference will engage the existing research situation in the African Indian Ocean, and it aims to identify important agendas and paradigms for future studies. It will discuss strategies and methodological approaches, and will investigate practical possibilities for research collaboration and support.
Thematic outline
World system changes since the end of the Cold War has led to a break-up in the identity of global units and cohesions, and given new significance to oceans and coastlines that used to constitute the boundaries and the in-between between areas and regions.
This process has had a particularly powerful effect in the context of the African Indian Ocean coast, where new polarities of international power politics have coincided with enhanced competition over scarce natural resources and rivalries to control oil finds along the seaboard as well as mining opportunities in the coastal hinterlands.
Dates and Registration
The conference will be hold at Roskilde University, auditorium 25.1, 13-14 November 2013. Participation is open to all interested, as long as space permits, but registration is required. Please register by sending an e-mail to adt@ruc.dk by Friday 8. November 2013 at the latest.
For more information on the programme, go to www.ruc.dk/globaldynamics