International Academic Conference
September 16th, 2014

Call for Papers

Kozminski University Asia Research Centre (KU ARC) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the The European Union and Asia. Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities, a conference organized jointly by Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University to be held at the Kozminski University on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.

The changing economic and political situation in a global world has shown the need of establishing a close cooperation between specific countries and organizations. In consequence, it had also impact on the need of creating a network of cooperation between Asian countries and the European Union, which is not still clearly visible in a public dialogue. This conference aims to prove that there is need of discussion about the perspectives and opportunities of the EU-Asia cooperation, and to show the challenges regarding this problem. It also goals at showing the necessity of creating an interdisciplinary researches, not only limited to Asian or European studies.  The subject of this conference has not been limited to any particular issue or problem, but rather inviting researchers from different disciplines, yet whose attention is focused on broadly construed Asia and the EU, we hope for creating a space (and a network) for the exchange of ideas, perspectives, and analytical tools.
Abstracts are invited for 15-minute presentations, which would treat about Asia and the European Union relations from the perspective in one of the following disciplines:

economy and business

political sciences

art and culture

sociology and migration issues

Presentations will be 15 minutes long and will be followed by 5-minute discussions. We accept all paper types, including conceptual papers, research papers and case studies.

Abstract Submission

We are calling for submissions of abstracts to the 2014 Conference based on the following guidelines:

1. Abstracts in English should be submitted via our registration site (here) by June 15th 2014.

For more information see the website here: http://www.kozminski.edu.pl/index.php?id=9300#deadlines