17-18 september 2007

This is a seminar devoted to the dissemination of the current situation in Afghanistan, five years after the fall of the Taliban regime and on its way to being reincorporated into the International Community. The objective is to inform public opinion of the role that Spain is playing in Afghanistan and the elements that configure the daily reality of a country immersed in a complex process of consolidation of state structures and transition to democracy.

Call for papers
31 october 2007 deadline for the abstracts.

The competition has opened for the submission of written works that have as their central theme a reflection on the notion of territory and its links with tourism, heritage and identity. The papers that are judged to be the best will be selected to form part of the seminar Tourism, heritage, identities and territories which, working from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, will represent an attempt to widen our perception of the concept of territory, redefining it in terms of its implications for the field of tourism, sustainable development and the processes of identity reconstruction. It is all about investigating whether, now that mobility affects tourism more than ever, the reassessment of territory as a social identification space and a development space could become a source of conflict or, in contrast, an opportunity for social and economic advancement.

20 and 21 September 2007

This is the second part of the series, Boundaries: Transience and Intercultural Dynamics, dedicated to the study of the concept of Boundary as a metaphor of a space of identification in which what is similar and what is different is decided. Following an initial reflection on the need for a cosmopolitan view in order to observe the increase in interdependence and to understand the new landscapes of identity, in this new phase of analysis the focus of attention is research on the processes of hybridisation, ethnicity and the social organisation of difference.

On 7 September, legislative elections are to be held in Morocco. Among the important question marks hanging over these elections is the importance of political Islamism as represented by the Justice and Development Party (PJD), as well as how much transparency will be achieved. This event will be structured into two round tables: the first will present the results of the elections, analysing the characteristics of the Moroccan political system, and the second will be based on a debate on the consequences that the results will bring, and the new political cycle that the elections will produce for Morocco's domestic policy and its international relations.
The complete programme will be publicised in early September.