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
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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
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