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2009 Annual Global Studies Association conference

Challenging globalization: new perspectives, alternative visions, emerging agendas

2nd - 4th September 2009 at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX , UK

Call for papers

The nature and dynamics of globalization have been at the centre of social science debate over the past two decades or so. Such debates have generated an enormously rich multidisciplinary literature and global studies has asserted itself as a key area of social science research. In recent years, the beginnings of a 'backlash' can be discerned and the expansion of global studies has been slowed and subject to sustained critique. As David Held has pointed out critics argue that 'globalization is no longer a useful description of social reality, not does it provide a cogent explanation of social forces shaping our world ... the world is witnessing the demise of globalization'. Is the study of globalization on the wane, or can global studies overcome the challenges? This year's GSA conference provides an opportunity to explore critical approaches to globalization and the challenges to global studies represented by a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to cosmopolitanism, transnational studies, and resurgent nationalisms, and importantly also offers an opportunity for global studies scholars to challenge the skeptics and assert the enduring relevance of globalization to an understanding of the world.

The conference organizers invite proposals for papers which address themes of relevance to the conference topic, including:

* alternative/multiple modernities and globalization

* anti-globalization: bottom-up challenges?

* the rise of the global non-West

* teaching globalization: challenging students

* global fragments/fragmented globalizations

* the challenge of Transnational Studies

* my global self: globalization and subjectivity

* the limits of globalization theory

*one world/multiple worlds

* globalization in one country

* the challenge of cosmopolitanism

* rethinking global/local relations

* towards a more critical global studies

Proposals for papers should take the form of a 300 word abstract and may be submitted on any aspect of the conference theme. The organisers will allocate papers to an appropriate panel. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30 2009.

Keynote speakers :

* Faisal Devji (New School, New York)

* Stuart Elden (University of Durham)

* Jonathan Friedman (Lund University)

* Robert Holton (Trinity College, Dublin)

* Ronnie D. Lipschutz (University of California, Santa Cruz)

* Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)

Costs:

Full registration (inc. accommodation for 2 nights on campus, meals, registration fee) £265

Full registration plus GSA annual membership £ 275

Full registration plus GSA annual membership and free GSA annual journal subscription £ 300

Existing GSA members £225

Day delegate rate £ 90 (or £45 per day)

Day delegate rate plus GSA annual membership £100

Day delegate rate plus annual membership and free GSA annual journal subscription £125

Existing GSA members Day delegate rate £ 81

Student rate £ 225 (full registration)

Other rates on application

For further information please contact the conference organizer Chris Rumford, Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Royal Holloway,

University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX chris.rumford@rhul.ac.uk

 

Previous Conferences:

 

Cultures and/of Globalization

An interdisciplinary conference organised by the Global Studies Association (UK and Europe) and Oxford Brookes University, September 3-5, 2008, Oxford, UK.

Call for panels and papers.

This conference will provide an opportunity to explore the ways in which culture as the realm of meaning can inform current debates about globalization and afford greater understanding of contested globality. Appeals for a multi-dimensional and multi/inter-disciplinary approach to the study of global systems still lose out to varieties of methodological nationalism, while disciplines often shy away from much that is intellectually foreign. Through attention to the soft features of globalization and globality (largely cultural and motivational phenomena and the realms of meaning)and to the disciplines that promote such approaches (Sociology, Cultural Studies; Social Anthropology, Communication Studies and some areas of Geography and Urban Studies) this conference offers an exploration of disciplinary paradigms and a reminder that a frenetic search for appropriate indicators of globalization cannot be confined to economic or narrowly conceived governance phenomena.

Themes pertinent to the study of cultures of/and globalization include:

 

We invite colleagues from across the disciplinary spectrum to submit proposals for panels and papers on these and other relevant topics of investigation.

Culture is an intriguing zone of analysis for students of globalizations and global systems, because of relative neglect or cavalier treatment by researchers of all persuasions, not least from political science, international relations and international political economy. Contributions to the conference will examine culture as more than shorthand for some exotic conjunctional features of current globalization best seen through the lens of some simple domination-resistance motif, and rehearse cultural phenomena as part of a description of new forms of sociality constituted through global processes.

We also welcome proposals for papers and posters from research postgraduate students.  There will also be a panel devoted to undergraduate research and a discussion space for activist organisations.

Proposals for panels should be no more than 2 sides of A4 and contain title, brief description, and the titles and authors of no more than 4 papers. The conference organisers will allocate a panel chair and a discussant, if required. The deadline for submission of panel proposals is April 30 2008.

Proposals for papers should take the form of a 500 word abstract and may be submitted on any aspect of the conference theme. The organisers will allocate papers to an appropriate panel. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30 2008

Decisions on panels and papers will be made and notified by May 31st 2008

More details will be posted at http://ssl.brookes.ac.uk/irpolsoc/ which will host the conference site. Full information about the conference, keynote speakers, preliminary programme and delegates will be published in the coming months.

Pro-formas for registration and payment are contained in a separate document linked to this page. Once you have registered, you will be sent a list of approved accommodation and other information on getting to and around Oxford.

Queries should be addressed to Maggie Kleszczewska
School of Social Sciences and Law,
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane,
OX3 OBP

Tel: +44 (0)1865 483752

Fax: +44 (0)1865 483937
e-mail: mkleszczewska@brookes.ac.uk

We look forward to seeing you in Oxford,

Barrie Axford (baxford@brookes.ac.uk) and Richard Huggins (rthuggins@brookes.ac.uk) (Conference Chairs)

 


Everyday Life in the Global City 

The Institute for Culture, Gender and the City (ICGC) at Manchester Metropolitan University is organizing a conference for July 9th-11th 2007.

Everyday life has often been neglected in studies of globalisation across the social sciences and humanities.  Yet focus on the everyday is useful in both challenging and grounding theories about the global city.  Because of its often unreflexive, habitual nature, everyday experience and practice is apt to be overlooked by rather over-general theories about the global.  This conference seeks to reinstall the everyday as a focus for enquiry.  We aim to explore tensions between cultural specificities and global processes, investigate the banality of institutionalized elite transnational practices, and interrogate existing notions of the ‘everyday’.  We also aim to critically question how the conceptualizing of global cities might be challenged by a focus upon everyday urban practices 

Themes based on aspects of everyday life in non-Western cities are especially welcome. Suggestions for papers should address the following. 

  • Conceptualizing the everyday in a global context: How are global flows (of things, images, people, money) incorporated into everyday urban practices? Alternatively, how might unreflexive, everyday practices provide a grounded sense of place and maintain local cultural identity?
  • Cosmopolitanism: How might the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism challenge contemporary conceptualizations of cosmopolitanism?
  • Transnational elite practices: How do the everyday practices of business, intellectual and cultural elites (re)produce urban governance and economy? How are these contested?
  • Popular urban culture:  How do transnational music, sport, fashion and dining practices, as well as other forms of popular consumption, provide everyday milieus for performing urban life?
  • Glocal hybridity: How can the city be conceived as a site in which everyday ‘glocal’ and ‘hybrid’ forms of identity and culture are continually (re)produced?
  • Multicultural relations, diversity and conflict: How do different migrant, ethnic and religious groups discover, (re)invent and (re)produce forms of everyday urban life?

Keynote speakers. The organizers are keen to ensure that leading scholars in the fields of everyday global life, urban and cultural studies and cosmopolitanism will contribute to plenary sessions at the conference. David Bell and Beverly Skeggs have already agreed to be keynote speakers but negotiations with several other leading thinkers in this area are also proceeding. We will update the ICGC website as further information comes in on this and other matters.    

Postgraduates contributors. We very much welcome the participation of postgraduates whether as contributors to the debates and/or as individuals offering papers based on their current doctoral or other research. With this in mind we are offering special low-cost deals to postgraduates with several built-in options (see the booking form below).  

Additional information. 

The ICGC was established in 2003. All its members are keenly research active and involved in a number of diverse projects. It is made up of four research groups with overlapping research interests: The Cities Spaces and Power Group; The Gender and Sexuality Research Centre; and The Institute for Global Studies; and the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture. The ICGC’s members will play a leading role in arranging and managing theme-based workshops.  

All papers arriving in time will be collated and presented in a conference booklet. The organizers enjoy a range of close contacts with a number of key publishers and are confident that book contracts will be negotiated based on selective conference papers.   

Abstracts should be emailed by April 30th 2007 at the latest to one of the people identified below. The organizers will regularly deal with incoming abstracts in batches and inform participants of our decision. You should also return you booking form to one of the organizers listed below who can also be contacted for further enquiries:

Chris Porter, Paul Kennedy and Tim Edensor. 

c.porter@mmu.ac.uk

p.kennedy@mmu.ac.uk

t.edensor@mmu.ac.uk  
 
Conference costs and booking.  
The conference costs £150 for full time academics and £50 for postgraduates (or £75 if the latter wish to participate in the conference dinner). This will include two lunches, all teas/coffees, the conference meal at a top city restaurant, a bound copy of the conference abstracts and the conference fees. A second evening meal will be arranged later and will be paid for separately.  

Accommodation is available in one of the universities new student halls at a cost of approximately £24.15 per night including vat. Breakfast is £6.80. We can book this for you if you tell us which nights you want (see booking form). If you want the campus accommodation you will need to calculate the amount for this and add it to your overall total when you make your credit  card payment. If you wish to stay in one of the local hotels you need to make you own arrangements for booking and paying. There are a number of hotels in the city centre – your choice depending on what you are prepared to pay. You could also try some of the standard chain hotels around Portland Street, which is a brisk 10-15 minute walk to MMU.  These are  cheaper than the city centre hotels – probably  around £50 a night? 

Try: http://www.premiertravelinn.com/pti/hotelInformation.do?hotelId=24057  

or: http://www.britanniahotels.com/hotel_home.asp?Page=108  

or: http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/fichehotel/gb/ibi/3142/fiche_hotel.shtml  

All these are very central.  

You could also try this website - http://www.virtualmanchester.co.uk/accommodation/

or search the internet for cheaper deals, such as www.expedia.com. 

If you do not inform us of your wish to book campus rooms we will assume you are making your own separate hotel arrangements.  

You can pay the conference fees directly in advance by using the university’s credit card system . This will automatically go into the conference budget.  

Please refer to the web site for ICGC for (a) continuing conference updates and (b) to access the conference booking form and payment details. Access MMU’s web site (www.mmu.ac.uk) then click on the ‘Research’ menu on the left hand side and from there  go to the Institute of Culture, Gender and the City. Click on ‘News and Events’.  




Global Social Justice in Theory and Practice

Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham
GSA Annual Conference
3 - 5 September 2007

Plenary speakers:

Professor Simon Caney (University of Birmingham)

Professor Shirin Rai (University of Warwick)

Professor Leslie Sklair (London School of Economics)

Public Lectures:

Clare Short (Birmingham MP and campaigner for global justice) 

Phil Shiner (Human Rights Lawyer of the Year, 2004)

Call For Papers:

Abstracts are encouraged from activists, practitioners and policy-makers as well as from academics from relevant fields (including cultural studies, sociology, politics, philosophy, law, history, religious studies and history). 

Themes include: 

  • Theories of justice
  • Globalization
  • Human rights
  • Group and cultural rights
  • Post-colonialism and neo-colonialism
  • Conflict and post-conflict societies and justice
  • Gender and culture
  • Justice in a pluralistic world
  • Scientific, technological, communication and bioethical issues of justice
  • Environment and ecological issues of justice

Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and be emailed to Nicki Smith (n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk) or Heather Widdows (h.widdows@bham.ac.uk) by 1 May 2007. 

Selected papers will appear in a Special Issue of the Journal of Global Ethics 2009. 

Booking information and conference details are available on the conference website(http://www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/GSAConf2006/index.htm). Please complete the Booking Form which is available in Word or PDF format and return via email to Dr Nicki Smith (n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk) or Dr Heather Widdows (h.widdows@bham.ac.uk) or by post to: Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT. 

Accommodation is not included with the conference price but recommended venues are also available on the conference website. (http://www.globalethics.bham.ac.uk/GSAConf2006/index.htm)

 


Mapping Global Inequality - UC Atlas Conference

December 13-14 2007
University of California Santa Cruze

Conference topics

Skills workshops on:

For Further Deatials visit: http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/flyer.html.

 



 
 
 

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