the Council for European Studies OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY eighteenTH INTERNATIONAL meetings in spain


  1. Founded in 1970, the Council for European Studies (CES) is the leading academic organization for the study of Europe. The Council produces and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, special events, and awards. The Council's biennial international conference brings together scholars from a multitude of countries and a multitude of fields for debate, discussion, and interdisciplinary exchange.

  2. Now, CES will host meetings in Europe for the first time in its 40 year history. SAE members are encouraged to participate and highlight the contribution of anthropology to this interdisciplinary enterprise.

  3. Conference proposals must be submitted online during September 2010.


Call for papers barcelona, spain june 21-23, 2011



SAE was pleased to co-sponsor THis panel cluster WITH CES

at their seventeenth international meetings

Montreal, CANADA, April 15-17 2010

Theme: Revenge of the European Model?


Friday, April 16th, Grand Plaza Hotel

European In/Securities


I: Immigrants, Boundaries and Moralities

Deborah Reed-Danahay, Elizabeth Krause, Levent Soysal, Deborah Altamirano


  2. The twenty-first century has intensified anxieties in Europe about the boundaries of Europe, of individual nations within it, of ethnic groups who reside within nations and move across their borders, and of control over the bodies of immigrants. The papers in this panel employ historical and ethnographic perspectives on these myriad modes of insecurity in order to raise questions related to immigration in Europe: How have bodies become sites for policing in the new age of European insecurity? Does a new regime of “free movement of people” signal the “end of migration” to Europe? How can nations ensure their security without diminishing the security of immigrants who live and work within them? And, how do postcolonial legacies affect the moral and social spaces of refugees and their descendants? These papers examine the implications of shifting moralities and boundaries in a postcolonial and post-9/11 Europe for immigrants and the national, transnational, and supranational regimes in which they are located.


II:  European Models of Human Security

Tracey Heatherington, Mark Nuttall, Philip Lancaster, Andria Timmer, Molly Doane


  2. This roundtable explores models of human security that shape policy-making within the context of the European Union today, as well as the role of these European models at the international level. This roundtable explores how European policies related to themes such as poverty, social inclusion, environment, climate, food security or conflict resolution compare to and mesh with other national models. We are interested in the role of Europe in other parts of the world, for example through aid and development programs, collaborative partnerships, market standards, treaty negotiation and carbon trading. We also consider the tensions, parallels, and convergences between models of military or national security and models of human security in European and global context.