Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Researching Transnational Spaces, Cross-Border Diffusion, and Transnational Histories
International Conference
Organized by the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
Bielefeld University
22 - 23 April 2010
The criticism of methodological nationalism has opened up new ways to conduct research on global and transnational dynamics. Nowadays, the common methodological statement is that societal spaces cannot be regarded as equal to territorial spaces. Prominent methodological proposals are suggested by the global ethnography approach, the cosmopolitan theory, and the transnational approach. While the first combines large-scale ethnography with detailed examinations of everyday life, the second proposes to conduct research simultaneously on different spatial scales, such as global, transnational, national, and local dimensions. And the third, the transnational approach, refers to relational concepts of spatiality. Thus, this conference will link debates on new methodological approaches with the discussion of problematic issues within empirical research on global and transnational transformations.
Guests interested in conference participation as external participants have to fill in the registration form and send it back to methodology-conference@uni-bielefeld.de till the 15. April. Registrations sent after this data are at risk not being considered.
Please note that all external participants will have to pay a conference fee of 8 Euro (for coffee breaks during the conference).
Guests, who want to join us for lunch at ZIF, are kindly asked to pay an additional fee of 10 Euro (i.e. 18 Euro all together).
We kindly ask you to mark relevant options for lunch in the registration form.
We look forward to meet you at the conference,
Your Organisation-Team
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University
Centre on Migration, Development and Citizenship (COMCAD), Bielefeld University
