Call for Workshop Participation and Paper Proposals an international
workshop and conference on Transnational Risks and Civil Society
The Berlin Roundtables in 2004: Application Procedure
Call for Workshop Participation and Paper Proposals:
From January 2nd to January 10th , 2004 an international workshop and
conference on Transnational Risks and Civil Society will take place in
Berlin.
The event is part of a series of
workshops and conferences on transnationality organized by the
Irmgard Coninx Foundation in cooperation with the Social Science
Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Humboldt University.
The topic of the first workshop will be:
Transnational Risks -
The Responsibility of Social Sciences and the Media.
The workshop will focus on questions as: How can a global civil
society respond to challenges that do not stop at borders? How
can networks of risk management and crisis management be
sustained, used and expanded for the development of a
transnational civil society?
To discuss these questions in a challenging interdisciplinary
atmosphere we are looking for young scholars, journalists and NGO
activists who currently work on related topics. The workshops
will be conducted by an international group of senior researchers.
Topics of the workshops are:
NGOs between globalization and localization
NGOs as agents of transnational civil society
transnational risks: focus of the media & focus on the media
global financial risks and transnational regime building
public health as a transnational challenge
transnational risks from a historical perspective
Senior Researchers are:
Boris Holzer,
Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology,
University of Munich
Vinh-Kim Nguyen,
Professor of Medical Anthropology,
McGill University, Montreal
Cyril I. Obi,
Senior Research Fellow,
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.
Shalini Randeria,
Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Central European University, Budapest
Jan Aart Scholte,
Professor in Politics and International Studies,
University of Warwick.
Folke Schuppert,
Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law,
Humboldt University, Berlin
Roger de Weck,
journalist and former Chief Editor of German weekly Die Zeit
To apply for participation candidates must send in a CV and a 2
to 3 page proposal outlining their research or journalistic
project. Applications must be in English.
Closing date for applications is August 31, 2003.
Papers will be discussed and developed during the workshops.
Their results will be presented at the subsequent international
conference.
Language of the workshops and the conference is English.
The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover costs of travel and
accommodation.
Contact
Irmgard Coninx Stiftung
c/o Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Location: Germany
Deadline: August 31, 2003
Website: http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/en/roundtables/procedere.htm
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