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ISR Review Seeks Reviewers

As new editors of the International Studies Review (ISR) we are committed to continuing the journal’s traditions of intellectual rigor, methodological sophistication, and analytical diversity.  To that end, we are seeking scholars who are interested in reviewing books, article manuscripts, and forums for the journal.  If you are interested, please send your current position and affiliation, list of your research interests, and topics you would like to review to isr@uconn.edu.  Please note that ISR does not accept unsolicited book reviews.

–- Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Mark Boyer, ISR co-editors, University of Connecticut

IPE Events at Annual Convention

The IPE section invites you to two events featuring this year's Outstanding Public Scholar Awardee, Filipino academic and activist Walden Bello.

1) Panel honoring Outstanding Public Scholar Walden Bello
Date: Thursday March 27th 2008
Time: 3:45pm – 5:30pm
Location: International Studies Association (ISA) San Francisco Conference

2) Public forum and book party on "The Future of the Global Justice Movement"
Co-sponsored by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Press
Speakers: Walden Bello (Focus on the Global South), Kevin Danaher (Global Exchange), and Susan George (Transnational Institute & ATTAC)
Authors in Barry Gill's edited series Rethinking Globalization will also be on hand
Date: Friday March 28th 2008
Time: 8-10:30 pm
Location: City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
This event is free and open to the public
Further information:  Contact Ruth Reitan at r.reitan@miami.edu, or Sian Askew at sian.askew@tandf.co.uk

Institute for Advanced Studies Conference

New Sciences of Protection:  Designing Safe Living Conference
Lancaster University, UK, July 10-12, 2008

This interdisciplinary conference explores issues at the intersections of security, safety, design, science and technology.  Papers, exhibitions, and presentations on any of these areas are welcome. his research programme investigates how design of objects, systems, places, and services engender feelings of safety for individuals and groups. It particularly focues on the intersection of design and specific sciences and technologies. It central questions are:

• How is ‘safe living’ conceived of by designers, artist-writers, policy makers and regulators, scientist-engineers, social scientists and humanities scholars, and how do these conceptualisations of ‘safe living’ engage with sciences and technologies of protection?
• Is ‘safe living’ achievable?
• And if ‘safe living’ were achievable, would it be desirable – as a politics, as an ethics, as a day-to-day way of live – and would it make us ‘safe’?

A key aim of the research programme is to think about design, protection, and safe living in open-ended  conceptually and practically inventive ways. Keynote speakers are designers Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, filmmaker Lynn Hersman Leason, and academics Benjamin H. Bratton, Lucy Suchman, Susan Silby, and Richard Buchanan.

Please submit abstracts to a.mumford@lancaster.ac.uk by April 15, 2008.  Please register for the conference by May 15, 2008 to receive a discounted rate.

Further information about the conference including registration information can be found on the conference website.

Convention Hotels

The group rate at all the official convention hotels expired on March 4th. The group rates are no longer available. You may still make changes to existing reservations by contacting that hotels directly. Other accommodations in the Union Square area may be found using online hotel search engines (search on Expedia, Priceline, Hotels.com, etc.) or by visiting the San Francisco Visitor's Bureau website at www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com.

UN Conferences

The Third Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects, that will take place at the United Nations in New York from 14 to 18 July 2008.

There is still time to register for this:
The 2008 high-level meeting on AIDS will take place at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 10 - 11 June. It will review progress made in implementing the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS.

Anyone interested in attending these conferences please contact ISA's UN-NGO Representative:

Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner
The City University of New York
Email: jbraveboy-wagner AT gc.cuny.edu