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The conference structure and schedule have been designed to enable intensive 'working group' interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern to all participants. Accordingly, there will be public keynotes, plenaries, and roundtables addressing different aspects of Inter-Asian research in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the workshops together in a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the deliberations in Dubai.

Individual paper submissions are invited for the following workshops:
Sites of Inter-Asian Interaction
Workshop directors: Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck, University of London, UK; Tim Harper, University of Cambridge, UK

Networks of Islamic Learning across Asia: The Role of International Centers of Islamic Learning in Building Ties and Forging New Identities
Workshop director: Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Distant Divides and Intimate Connections: Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia
Workshop director: Nicole Constable, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Law-in-Action in Asian Societies and Civilizations
Workshop directors: Baudouin Dupret, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France; Zouhair Ghazzal, Loyola University, Chicago, USA

Multiple flexibilities: nation-states, global business and precarious labor
Workshop directors: Kevin Hewison, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Neoliberal Globalization and Governmentality: State, Civil society and the NGO Phenomena in Asia
Workshop director: Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Contents and Prospects
Workshop directors: Howard Loewen, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany; Anja Zorob, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany

Border Problems: Theory, Culture, and Political Economy
Workshop directors: David Ludden, New York University, USA; Julie Mostov, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA; Dina M. Siddiqi, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Post-collective Economic Lives and Livelihoods: Studies of Economy,
Institution and Everyday Practice in Post-socialist Eurasia and Asia
Workshop directors: Beth Mitchneck, University of Arizona, USA; John Pickles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Transnational Circuits: 'Muslim Women' in Asia
Workshop director: Annelies Moors, ISIM/University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments & the Art of Being Global
Workshop directors: Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Application materials are due by Friday, September 14, 2007. Junior and senior scholars are encouraged to apply, whether graduate students and faculty affiliated to colleges and universities, or researchers in NGOs or other research organizations. Please note that an individual cannot apply to more than one workshop.

Selection decisions will be announced on October 19, 2007. Accepted participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by January 14, 2008.

The SSRC will make every effort to subsidize the travel and accommodation costs associated with attending the conference, and we will issue a formal announcement about availability and levels of financial assistance for individual participants in the coming months. In the meantime, prospective participants are encouraged to seek out alternative sources of funding that may be available from their home institutions or other agencies.

For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at intl_collaboration@ssrc.org.