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Call for Papers 11th Mediterranean Research Meeting Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Montecatini Terme (Italy) 2427 March 2010 __________________________________________________ The Eleventh Mediterranean Research Meeting will take place near Florence (Italy) on 2427 March 2010. Goals of the MRM Reaching its Eleventh Session, the Mediterranean Research Meeting: - is committed to foster theoretical and empirical research and dialogue among scholars from countries across the Mediterranean, and with Mediterranean issue concerns; - stresses its aim to reach as wide as possible coverage of all Mediterranean areas, with topics relating to the Middle East, North Africa, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, their mutual relationships and their relations with Europe; - focuses attention on legal, historical, economic and socio-political issues; - aims to enable junior scholars to meet more senior scholars in an interactive environment, and to promote further research collaboration; - encourages the publication and dissemination of this research in edited volumes, thematic issues of learned journals, and Mediterranean Programme RSCAS-EUI Working Papers. Workshops 1. Globalization, Secularization and Religion Different States, Same Trajectories? 2. Sustainable Waste Management in the Mediterranean Region: Impacts of Socio-economical and Political Factors 3. Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary Mediterranean: the Middle East and the Balkans Compared 4. Provincializing Europe? Towards a Local History of Maghribi Modernity 5. Re-examining Federalism and Consociationalism as Constitutional and Political Arrangements for Community Conflicts in Post-Ottoman Lands 6. Who is Who in the Balkans Today: Mythmaking and Identity Mutations, 1989-2009 7. Socio-economic Dilemma, Cultural Challenges and their International Dimensions 8. E-Business: Implications for the North and South of the Mediterranean 9. Alternative Publics in the Middle East and North Africa 10. EU Democracy Promotion and Electoral Politics in the Arab Mediterranean 11. Adriatic Frontiers: Communications Across Cultures, Space and Time 12. Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in the MENA Region 13. Superpower Rivalry and the Third Way(s) in the Mediterranean 14. Rethinking Interethnic Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: Minorities, Borders, Governance 15. The Evolving International Role of the GCC Economics 16. Governance of the Mediterranean Sea: Meeting the Needs of the Future Today 17. Integrating the Western Balkans into the European Union: Overcoming the Political and Economic Constraints For information please visit the home page of the MRM: http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010/ Contact: Imco Brouwer and Aleksandra Djajic-Horvath Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European University Institute Convento Via delle Fontanelle, 19 I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole Italy Fax: +39 055 4685-770 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org

