Sunday 15 July 2012
The City of Limassol
The old town Lemesos (Limassol) is the heart of the city with its narrow streets radiating out from the old fishing harbour. The medieval Lemesos Castle was the site of a royal wedding in the Middle Ages between Richard the Lionheart, King of England, and Berengaria of Navarre, and now houses the Cyprus Medieval Museum. The town has grown in recent years and now covers a 15 kilometre coastline lined with hotels and apartment blocks, interspersed with eucalyptus groves and linked by a promenade popular with walkers or joggers. The city’s inhabitants are renowned for their love of fun so not surprisingly the city’s nightlife is varied. All sorts of tavernas, discos and clubs are open all the year round, while beach bars along the coastal walkway add to the choice. Join in the Bacchian excesses at the Wine Festival in September, or enjoy a summer concert under the stars in the Greco-Roman theatre of Kourion.
The City of Nicosia (and host city of conference)
Lefkosia (Nicosia), the island’s capital, combines both old and new in a busy modern commercial and business centre and a centuries-old culture. The centre of the city is its old quarter surrounded by a Venetian sandstone fortress wall with a moat and heart-shaped bastions. Mosques and palm trees give an oriental atmosphere to the old city. Wander round narrow streets with overhanging balconies and the beautifully restored pedestrian precinct with craft shops, cafes and tavernas. Make sure you stop off at Ayios Ioannis (St John) cathedral with its frescoes and the marvellous museum of Byzantine icons. The new town spreads beyond the walls with a modern Europeanised centre of high-rise buildings, office blocks, shops and pavement cafes, expanding into suburban residential areas. Lefkosia offers the best in shopping and Stassicratous Street is the place for the ultimate shopping experience. Of the city’s main sights, the Cyprus Museum houses the best collection of archaeological artefacts on the island, including a first century AD Roman statuette of Aphrodite of Soli and the original mosaic of Leda and the Swan, while the Leventis Museum depicts the history of the town.
Cyprus Weather
Cyprus enjoys a very sunny climate compared with most countries with 11.5 hours of bright sunshine per day over the six summer months. Cyprus enjoys an intense Mediterranean climate of hot dry summers starting in mid-May and lasting until mid-September and rainy, quite mild winters from November to mid-March. Spring and autumn are effectively short intervals in between, characterised by smooth weather. With almost year-round clear skies and sunshine, daylight length ranges from 9.8 hours in December to 14.5 hours in June. In broad lines, Cyprus's climate is characterised by hot summers and mild winters. Daily temperatures during the hottest months of July and August range between 29°C on the central plain and 22°C on the Troodos Mountains. The average maximum temperatures for these two months range between 36°C and 27°C. During summer humidity is very low near midday, ranging from 15% to 30% on the central plain. Fog is rare and typically occurs in early morning. Visibility is normally very good or excellent. Clothing requirements vary, depending on the length and the period of your visit. From June to the end of August, very light summer clothing is a must. September to October see quite a few warm days and cool evenings.
Visiting Cyprus
Cyprus has no dangerous infectious diseases. Visitors do not require any vaccinations to travel to Cyprus. Greek and Turkish are the main languages spoken by the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities respectively. English is widely spoken. French and German are also well spoken within the tourist industry. The price of products and services in Cyprus varies depending on the season and the location. Since a 10% service charge is levied in hotels and restaurants, tipping is not obligatory but is always welcome and appreciated.
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Travelling to Cyprus
Travelling to Cyprus is very easy. The documentation required varies, depending on your nationality. A valid passport is required for a stay of up to 90 days for all bonafide tourists except citizens of European Union countries, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway who may enter Cyprus with their national identity card provided it bears a photo. Some non-EU third country nationals require a visa. Further detailed information can be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The legal ports of entry into the Republic of Cyprus are the airports of Larnaka (Larnaca) and Pafos (Paphos) and the ports of Larnaka (Larnaca), Lemesos (Limassol), Latsi and Pafos (Paphos), which are situated in the area under the effective control of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus. Entry into the territory of the Republic of Cyprus via any other port or airport in which the Government of the Republic does not exercise effective control (Turkish occupied areas) is illegal.
Registration
The deadline for registration of our 40th Annual Conference “Beyond the Wire: Regulating division, conflict and resistance” is the 31st July 2012.
We realise that a number of people can only secure conference funding if they are delivering a paper. Elisa has kindly agreed that anyone who would like to submit an abstract for the conference can do so up until the registration deadline (31st July).
Please send any late abstracts direct to Elisa at: bosio.e@unic.ac.cy
Conference registration can only be made online at the following website (please ensure that you book the correct conference as more than one is listed on the site):
If you experience any problems with the online registration please contact Elisa (bosio.e@unic.ac.cy)
Registration Fee:
Students - 75 Euro
Academics - 150 Euro
Students - 75 Euro
Academics - 150 Euro
Registration Fee Includes:
- Admission to all Conference sessions
- Conference Material
- Lunches and Coffee Breaks during Conference
- Return Transfer Hotels – University of Nicosia – Hotels on scheduled times
Friday 13 July 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference aims to explore the complexity of
social conflicts and the way in which occupation (military or otherwise) can
lead to the marginalisation
of identifiable groups of people in societies divided by historical and
territorial claims. It will examine the
meaning of going ‘beyond the wire’ or beyond the frontiers of a given conflict. The conference
intends to place deeply embedded social fault lines into context, and
specifically to consider their impact on processes of criminalisation, justice
and social control. The conference organisers
therefore encourage papers that will analyse social division, conflict and resistance
across Europe and beyond. For example,
we welcome consideration of the long term implications of the re-unification of
Germany; the consequences for Eastern European nations following the collapse
of communist states and the Soviet Union; political and community developments
in North of Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement; and the continued conflict
in Palestine and resistance of the Palestinian people.
The conference will seek to examine the manner in
which social divisions and conflicts implicitly or explicitly underpin
definitions of ‘crime’, justice, political constructions of order and
ideologies of the ‘other’. In uncertain
economic and political times, what will be the impact of profound social
divisions on the application of the criminal law? Will the harms of the powerful, corporations
and nation states against humans and non-humans remain relatively
invisible and under-enforced? How might current insecurities and
inequalities impact on policing conflict, unrest and popular resistance? Which identifiable groups are being placed
‘beyond the wire’ and how might deepening social divisions impact on the
marginalization and criminalisation of children, young people, migrants and
minority ethnic groups? What are the dynamics of persistent struggle,
criminalisation and social justice in societies transitioning from conflict?
We welcome papers on a range of issues connected to the theme of ‘Beyond the
Wire': Regulating Division, Conflict and Resistance, grouped under the six streams below.
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Stream
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Potential Topics
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Social divisions and the application of the
criminal law
For further details
contact: Athanasios Chouliaras tchouliaras@hotmail.com
and/or Vicky Vasilantonopoulou vickyvassila@hotmail.com
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Gendered violence
Identity, diversity and criminalisation
Gendered perspectives on social and criminal
policy
The criminalisation of children and young people.
Contemporary anatomo-politics and
bio-politics (incl. gender, sex and sexualities)
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Anti-security
For further details
contact: George Rigakos grigakos@connect.carleton.ca
and/or
Mark Neocleous mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk
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Policing disorder
Domestic and imperial projects of pacification
Police science and political economy
Private policing and the commodification
of security
Warfare in all its guises (class, race,
gender)
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Eco-global
‘crimes’, harms and abuse and consequences for human and nonhuman individuals
and species
For further details
contact: Ragnhild Sollund
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Environmental crimes and harms
The effects of globalisation on environmental
justice and species justice
The criminalisation of green and animal
rights’ movements
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Class, state power and corporate harms
For further details
contact: Steve Tombs
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Analysing ‘crime’ and harm in late capitalism
Corporate crime and financial regulation:
private profits, global contexts and consequences
Truth, knowledge and the corporate state
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The criminalisation
and victimisation of migrants and minority ethnic
communities For further details contact: Stratos
Georgoulas s.georgoulas@soc.aegean.gr and / or Georgios A. Antonopoulos g.antonopoulos@tees.ac.uk
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Border controls and control of migration
Explorations of the neo-colonial and
post-colonial condition
National / transnational exercises of power
Mapping the current scientific and technological
matrix
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Marginalisation, exclusion and social control
For further details
contact: Alejandro Forero Cuellar aleforero@ub.edu
and /or Andrea Beckmann abeckmann@lincoln.ac.uk
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Economic
crisis, uprisings and social control
Relationship between punishment and economic
conditions
The ever-expanding prison system
Marginalisation in societies divided by history and territorial claims
The
criminalization of poverty
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