We would appreciate it if you could inform us of any
conferences you organize yourself, which you hear about, or that could be of
interest to our group. Also, editors of special issues or edited volumes who are
searching for contributors are welcome to 'advertise' through e-Extreme.
Lastly, when you cross upon useful websites with information on conferences and
calls for papers, please contact the editor responsible for this section: Jennifer S. Holmes
Nationalism
and National Identities in the Americas: A symposium of the 52nd
International Congress of Americanists
July 17-21, 2006
Seville, Spain
ARENA, a new international organization, invites
proposals for a symposium focusing on nationalism and national identity in the
Americas. Our symposium will be open to a wide range of subjects and
methodologies involving all nations of the Americas, but we are especially
interested in comparative, transnational approaches to subjects of particular
relevance to the formation of nations in the Americas.
Final Deadline: September 15, 2005. Send proposals of 500 words and curriculum
vitae to: ARENA@sc.edu
For further information on ICA 52, see:
http://www.52ica.com/index.html
Visit the website at http://www.cas.sc.edu/arena
Figures of
Democracy: Rhetoric, Authority, and Civil Culture
October 21-22, 2005
Montreal, Canada
Conference sponsored by the Department of
Communication Studies, Concordia University
This conference invites scholars in Rhetoric,
Communication, Law, and Political Theory to consider the various ways that
democracy can figure, which is to say be both imagined and substantiated, in
public discourse and symbolic action.
We take as a starting premise that there is no single authoritative or
mature model of democracy. There are many ways of performing democracy and of
living (post)modernity. These ways imply distinct rhetorical forms, modes of
address, tropes, and styles. This conference aims at developing a deeper
appreciation of these and of their consequences.
Please e-mail paper proposals, along with a one-page
statement of your research interests and recent publications, to the following
e-mail address by March 4, 2005.
Prof. Maurice Charland
Dept. Communication Studies
Concordia University
Phone: (514) 848-2424 x2546
Email: charlan@alcor.concordia.ca
Human
Rights in a Globalizing Era?
August 4-6, 2005
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Organized by the Centre for Studies in Social
Justice, University of Windsor.
The worldwide expansion of new social and economic
relations, new patterns of migration, and the spread of North American consumer
culture have had radically destabilizing effects on the life-conditions of
peoples and populations around the world. The conference will consider the
diverse ways in which issues of democracy, practices of citizenship, and social
security articulate with human rights in this globalizing era. It will bring
together internationally known scholars, researchers, and activists whose work
addresses the foundations, history, politics, or limitations of human rights
and whose participation will assist in redressing the intractable dilemmas
associated with the processes of globalization.
Centre for Studies in Social Justice
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
Canada
Tel:
1-519-253-3000 ext. 3492
Email: socjust@uwindsor.ca
Visit the website at
http://www.uwindsor.ca/socialjustice
'Difference,
Borders, Others'- Sixth Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory
13th and 14th May 2005
The Department of Government
(www.essex.ac.uk/government), in collaboration with the Centre for Theoretical
Studies (www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/) and the Doctoral Programme in
Ideology and Discourse Analysis (www.essex.ac.uk/ida), is pleased to invite you
to the Sixth Essex Graduate Conference in Political Theory to be held at the
University of Essex between the 13th and 14th of May 2005. The conference has
achieved a renowned reputation for the quality of the papers presented and the
large number of international participants. Previous guest speakers have
included Wendy Brown, Judith Squires, Quentin Skinner, Joan Copjec, James
Tully, Fred Dallmayr, David Campbell and Chantal Mouffe, among others. The
conference provides an important opportunity to engage with the contemporary
challenges and possibilities of social and political theory and to exchange
views on ongoing research. Papers are encouraged from a wide variety of
backgrounds in the field of social and political theory.
Please send proposed paper
abstracts of 300-400 words to the e-mail address given below by Friday 25th
March 2005.
Registration form and
general information available at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/government/research/conferences.shtm
Jonathan Dean and Michael
Strange
Department of Government,
University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester,
Essex, CO4 3SQ
Email: polcon@essex.ac.uk
Race and
State
30-31 March 2005
Dublin, Ireland
Conference organised by The MPhil in Ethnic and
Racial Studies, Department of Sociology University of Dublin, Trinity College;
in association with the British Sociological Association's Race and Ethnicity
Study Group, and the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI)
The proposed conference intends to examine the
connection between 'race' and state from political, sociological and historical
perspectives with direct reference to the United Kingdom and Irish contexts.
How do these two differing , yet historically interlinked, polities fit into
both European and more globalised discussions of the linkages between 'race'
and state? For example, does Britain's opposition to Nazism endow it with a
different history from that characterising the racialisation of the
nation-state in Western Europe? Or does Ireland's position as the one of the
only European countries to have been colonised change the nature of the
'race'-state relationship in present-day politics of immigration in Ireland?
What role is played by the legacy of Empire in shaping the specific
construction of the relationship between 'race' and state in both contexts; the
one coloniser, the other colonised? How does this legacy position these
countries, at the westernmost frontier of Europe, vis-a-vis both the European
mainland and the North American context by which they have often been more
greatly influenced? In a time of increased repression of immigration across the
North, what is the place of these histories and legacies within the
contemporary global migration regime, from which, despite the racism it
engenders, discussions of the link between 'race' and state have been all but
banished? Call for papers: Papers may be theoretical and/or empirical but
should engage with the proposition, central to the conference aims, that 'race'
as a political idea and modern racism may not be fully conceptualised without
consideration of the nature of the modern, Western state.
Please send 150 words abstracts by 1 November 2004,
to the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, email: rlentin@tcd.ie, or to Alana
Lentin, email: alana.lentin@queen-elizabeth-house.oxford.ac.uk
Ethnic,
Religious or/and cultural pluralism and economic institution building
Germany
Theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Applicants should focus on economic
history. Economic and social sets of
human rights (like political and civil rights) have been primarily defined as
individual rights. John Rawls for instance deals with the problem "how a
society should determine what constitutes a basic set of rights and thus
constitutes justice: each of us should go behind a metaphorical veil of
ignorance where we determine what we think outright should be with no knowledge
of what our actual economic standing, educational level, gender, or ethnic
origin would be." (Nikolas K. Gvosdev) The individual and methodological
individualism are basic assumptions of Western economic theory (Neoclassical
economic theory or New Institutional Economics).
Call for Papers Deadline: 2005-05-01
Please submit your proposals (abstract of not more
than 1,500 words, CV and contact information) to Juergen Nautz
Juergen.nautz@univie.ac.at.
Univ.-Doz. Dr.
Jürgen Nautz
Dep. of Economics
Kassel University
D-34109 Kassel
Email: juergen.nautz@univie.ac.at
Cultures of
Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective - Fourth York
Cultural History Conference
21-23 April 2005
York, United Kingdom
Violence is an inescapable theme in human history. War,
violent crime, personal conflict and aggression appear to be constant features
of the human condition. Has violence been codified, tamed and suppressed by a
‘civilizing process’, which forged the modern, rational, bourgeois self? Is
civilization opposed to or predicated upon violence? This conference aims to
test these assumptions by examining interpersonal violence below the level of
the state from Classical Antiquity to the 21st Century. A comparative analysis
of various sorts of violence in various different periods, places and contexts
will enable us better to understand how and why thresholds of acceptable and
legitimate violence changed over time. What may have seemed acceptable
behaviour in one time and place may be unacceptable in another. How did
societies discuss and represent violence in art and literature? How was
violence regulated and controlled? What factors moved people, psychological,
material and ideological to violence? Papers are welcomed on particular cases,
on comparative and interdisciplinary themes, or on theoretical approaches.
Call for Papers Deadline: 2004-11-01
Dr Stuart Carroll
Dept History
University of York
YORK UK
YO10 5DD
Tel:01904-432968
Fax:01904-432986
Email: smc4@york.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~imd104/
America
& Violence
6-9 October 2005
Nova Scotia, Canada
Conference of the Canadian Association of American
Studies
The Canadian Association of American Studies will be
holding its 2005 Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 6-9. The theme
will be "America and Violence". "America", D. H. Lawrence
once proclaimed, "is tense with latent violence and resistance". This
description has rarely seemed more appropriate than at the present moment, when
the United States is tense with the fear of terrorist violence inside its own
borders, and strained by the physical and emotional costs of a violent war it
is waging on the other side of the world. But the American experience has, in
various ways, been a violent one from its beginning. Papers that deal with the
topic of violence in American history, culture, literature, and life from any
point of view are welcome.
Deadline: Proposals for papers or panels (250 words
max.) should be received by April 15, 2005.
David H. Evans
English Department
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS B3H 4P9
(902) 494-6925
(902) 494-2176 (fax)
Email: dhevans@ dal.ca
Visit the website at
http://www.dal.ca/~dhevans/CAAS/conference.htm
Special
Edition of the Canadian Journal of Education: "Democracy and
Education"
Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers Deadline: 2005-03-31
Education is an important site for the critical
examination of democracy and democratic citizenship. How are these terms
defined in today’s society? What are the appropriate goals of democratic
citizenship, and who should determine these? Are compulsory civics courses
adequate to educate the young citizen about democracy, its dimensions, promise
and limitations? If not, how do other formal educational initiatives coexist to
support -- or hinder -- the broader project of democratic engagement? Where
else does education for democracy occur, and what are the implications of these
intersections? To what degree is democratic education distinctive to a specific
nation, civic culture, style of governance, economy? How transferable to new
settings are projects to promote democratic education?
The proposed special issue will examine democracy and
education over time, in different national contexts, and through an
interdisciplinary lens. The editors will welcome submissions in English or
French, which address varying definitions of democracy as supported or
challenged by education, both formal and informal, and as involving people of
various ages, political and social orientations.
Guest editors for this special issue are Sharon Anne
Cook and Joel Westheimer, Democratic Dialogue, Faculty of Education, University
of Ottawa:
Manuscripts should conform to CJEs editorial policy.
They should be original research or scholarly articles, with a maximum length
of 7000 words. Authors should also provide a 100 word abstract, and the
manuscript must be masked for reviewing. Manuscripts may be submitted on-line
or as hard copy (five copies). (See CJE’s website:
http://www.csse.ca/CJE/home.htm.)