The 2nd Next-Generation Global Workshop, Nov. 21-22, 2009

APPLICATION GUIDELINE for Applicants from Overseas Partner Institutions

The 2ND Next-Generation Global Workshop
Is “Family” Alive? :Changing Social Relations through Sex, Politics and Communication

Overview of Next-Generation Global Workshop
The purpose of the Next-Generation Global Workshop is to provide early career scholars an opportunity to give presentations, to exchange opinions with their peers from various parts of the world, and to learn how to organize an international academic workshop. We plan to hold such workshops for five years, and this is the second year. Following the last year, it will be held again in Kyoto University, Japan.
This year, we aim to focus on Family as the main theme as it is a contested notion in recent social and human sciences; some specialists say that Family is now so diverse that it no longer stands as an analytical concept whilst it is still used unquestioned in our daily life from social welfare policies to neighborhood conversations, perhaps without contemplation on changes happening in actual families. This gap between the concept and the practice of Family can be a worthwhile topic of the workshop as it seems to overlap with the concern of GCOE Program: reconstruction of intimate and public spheres.
How does Family respond to the expectations of our society, does it function, what does it entail, if at all? More boldly, the question is ‘Is Family alive’? We propose to discuss this big issue by looking into discourse, media, welfare, migration, sexuality and gender centered around Family, dividing the two day workshop into four sessions.
Apply with care that this way of organization is different from last year’s, and your presentation needs to fit into one of the four session categories: Gender, Sexuality and Family; Welfare and Family; Migration and Family; Discourse, Media and Family. We look forward to seeing your high-quality applications.