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Tenth Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory Call for Papers Theory in the Face of Global Challenges: Capitalism & Ecology, Community & Citizenship. 16-18 June 2010 The Department of Government, in collaboration with the Centre for Theoretical Studies and the Doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, is pleased to invite you to the Tenth Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory, to be held at the University of Essex between the 16th and 18th June 2010. The conference has achieved renown 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, Bonnie Honig, David Owen, David Campbell, Simon Critchley, Michael Hardt, Ernesto Laclau, Chantall Mouffe, William E. Connolly and Jane Bennett, 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. We welcome papers from young scholars, postdoctoral researchers, and postgraduates from a wide variety of backgrounds in the fields of social and political theory. Broad themes include: Rethinking Community and Citizenship Critical Political Economy Discourse & the Media Politics of Immanence and Transcendence Ecology and Capitalism Politics and Technology Latin American Politics Universalism and Particularism Democracy and Representation Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Globalization Identity Politics and Mobilization Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis Religion, Faith and Pluralism Discourse and Affect Fundamentalisms New Ecologies Philosophies of Nature Discourse, Governance & Public Policy Culture and Political Economy Reworking Identity/Difference Rolling Deadline for Abstracts ends: 30 April 2010 General information, contact Khairil Ahmad and Graham Walker e-mail [log in to unmask] Department of Government University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ For further information please visit the conference website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/idaworld/10th_Essex_Conference_in_Critical_Political_Theory.html Professor Terrell Carver Department of Politics University of Bristol 10 Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU United Kingdom +44 (0)117 928 8826 www.bristol.ac.uk/politics