Call for academic workshop papers and PhD summer school applications - funding
available
Inter-disciplinary workshop (followed by PhD summer school) on
POLITICAL COMMUNITY
hosted by the
Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) at the University of
Aberdeen
on Tuesday 25-Wednesday 26 June 2013
See http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/events/2269/
Deadline: Tuesday 30th April
Academic coordinator: Trevor Stack ([log in to unmask])
Confirmed speakers include Margaret Somers (Sociology and History, Michigan), Ajay
Gudavarthy (Politics, JNU), Sian Lazar (Anthropology, Cambridge), John Perry
(Theology, Oxford), Nigel Dower (Philosophy, Aberdeen) and Tamas Gyorfi (Law,
Aberdeen).
Notions of political community are implicit in many or most contemporary debates -
academic and public - of citizenship, civil society and rule of law, as well as of
democracy, multiculturalism and human rights. But they are seldom made explicit and
subject to analysis and reflection. That has also been our experience at CISRUL.
Having debated and discussed aspects of citizenship, civil society and rule of law
in a series of events since our founding in 2009, we have identified political
community as a topic that crosscuts the three but which we have yet to comprehend
fully, and are seeking papers that address the following questions:
1. When "political community" has been the explicit topic of debates, in particular
times and places, what is meant by "political" and what is meant by "community"?
What is not considered political and what is not community? To give just two
examples, how is political community distinguished from religious community? And
community from society?
2. What notions of political community have been caught up in citizenship, civil
society and rule of law? Does citizenship, for example, always entail political
community?
3. Can we identify political community beyond citizenship, civil society and rule of
law? For example, are universities political communities? How about families,
businesses and churches? Is multitude, as Hardt and Negri suggest, an emergent form
of political community? What other emergent political communities might there be?
The workshop will be held at the beautiful Old Aberdeen campus of the University of
Aberdeen on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th June. It will be followed by a two-day
PhD summer school, to be held immediately after the workshop, on Thursday 27th and
Friday 28th June, at The Burn, a country house set in a beautiful estate in rural
Aberdeenshire.
See http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/events/2269/ for details of how prospective
workshop speakers can submit abstracts and PhD students can submit applications for
the summer school.
On our website http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul you can also see news of:
- other CISRUL activities, including our Citizenship Education project and Politics
of Oil & Gas public conference
- our PhD studentships (deadline extended to 17 April).
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Trevor Stack
Director, Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) Lecturer in
Hispanic Studies University of Aberdeen.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/spanish/staff/details.php?id=t.stack
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul
Forthcoming book Knowing History in Mexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowing-History-Mexico-Ethnography-Citizenship/dp/0826352529/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352066037&sr=8-1
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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