InterPhil: CFP: Globalisation
__ Call for Papers Theme: Globalisation Type: 2017 Postcolonial Studies Association Convention Institution: Postcolonial Studies Association School of Advanced Study, University of London Location: London (United Kingdom) Date: 18.–20.9.2017 Deadline: 28.2.2017 __ We are pleased to announce that the 2017 PSA Convention will be held at the School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London, from 18th to 20th September 2017. Paper and panel proposals are invited from academics, scholars and postgraduates with research interests in any area of postcolonial studies from any disciplinary, cross- or interdisciplinary perspective. Confirmed keynote speaker: Dr. Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin) Other keynotes to be confirmed shortly. The Special Topic of the 2017 Convention is Globalisation. Proposals for panels and papers on this theme are particularly encouraged (click here for CfP). While the transregional history of globalisation can be traced back to antiquity, its discursive entanglement with the temporal realm of the ‘postcolonial’ has been the subject of much discussion and analysis in recent times. The 2017 convention seeks to investigate the crucial role of postcolonial studies in furthering newer understandings of economic, political and cultural globalisation in the light of the current international climate: the complex socio-political ramifications of the Brexit verdict, Trump’s electoral victory, or the European refugee crisis, which have come to be regarded as the reactionary ‘whitelash’ against globalisation. Harnessing the philosophical scope of the postcolonial field, our special topic aims to examine the nexus between a ‘neoliberal’ grand-narrative and ‘neocolonial racism’ as a mainstream ideological position in both the North and South. How are these ongoing developments in the global North perceived by peoples and communities in the global South? How is the North/South binary interrogated by the liminal story spaces of illegal immigrants, temporary workers, refugees and asylum seekers? How might we postulate an alternative global economy? In what ways could informal citizenship practices collaborate with radical discourses of ecofeminism, or the transnational agency of a globalised digital resistance, to pose a concerted challenge to the reductive hierarchies of neocolonial racism? In what ways might postcolonial analyses of cultural production account for globalisation within the current economic and political conjuncture? Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute individual papers and 500 words for panels of three, along with a brief biographical note of participants (2-3 sentences max), to: psaconfere...@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Tuesday, 28th February 2017. Conference website: http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk/2017-psa-convention/ Contact: Anshuman Mondal, Chair Postcolonial Studies Association Armstrong House First Avenue Robin Hood Airport Doncaster, DN9 3GA United Kingdom Email: psaconfere...@postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk Web: http://www.postcolonialstudiesassociation.co.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: Globalisation and Global Justice
__ Call for Papers Theme: Globalisation and Global Justice Type: 52nd Annual Conference Institution: Societas Ethica Location: Linköping (Sweden) Date: 20.–23.8.2015 Deadline: 31.3.2015 __ We live in an age of globalisation, meaning that we are in various ways linked to distant people. Globalisation poses new challenges for ethics. The impact of our collective actions, in the form of consumption, production, banking, travelling, etc. transcends national borders and this means that the scope of our moral responsibility is becoming broader. The climate crisis, the financial crisis, the food crisis and the Ebola crisis are evidences of our global interdependence and of the vulnerability of and within the present world order. Business, politics and health care services are increasingly globalised, but does that also apply to ethics? Is there a need for a global ethics? What are the roles of churches and world religions in a globalised world, and what are the implications for ecumenism? One aspect of globalisation is that national sovereignty is hollowing and the states are losing control. Important economic and political decisions shaping the future of societies are taken less and less at a domestic level and more and more at a global level within global institutions and corporations. Since economic globalisation affects how wealth and power is globally distributed, it has become indispensable to discuss social ethics in a global context and to develop principles of global justice. Cosmopolitanism is challenging nationalism but what does that entail? Through different parallel sessions Societas Ethica will address the major moral questions regarding globalization and global justice. These sessions will focus on: - Global ethics, global values, natural law and universalism - Global justice; distributive and historical, and international aid - The ethics of the global economy; financial market, fair trade and corporate responsibility - Ethical challenges of the globalisation of social media and of information and communication technology - Migration and ethics - Nationalism, cosmopolitanism and global governance - Open channel (for PhD‐students) Keynote speakers Professor Jan Aart Scholte University of Warwick and University of Gothenburg Professor Kok Chor Tan Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Dr Lea Ypi Associate Professor in Political Theory at London School of Economics William Schweiker Professor of Theological Ethics University of Chicago The conference will also include panels on European and Asian perspectives on global ethics, global rectificatory justice and Ethics and Migration. Submissions Paper proposals should contain no more than 800 words (excluding bibliography), and clearly present a moral question or argument addressing one of the aforementioned topics. The deadline is March 31, 2015. Papers can be presented either in English, German, or French. Please send in the following two documents as Word attachments to: johanna.rom...@liu.se Document 1: Your name, first name, email address, institutional address, the title of your abstract, the topic under which your paper proposal falls, and, if eligible, your application to participate in the Young Scholars’ Award competition (see information below). Document 2: Your paper proposal including bibliography (max. 10 references) and title with all identifying references removed. Conference papers will be published in Conference Proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special volume of the journal De Ethica. A Journal of Philosophical, Theological and Applied Ethics. Societas Ethica Young Scholars’ Award is awarded to the best presentation by a young scholar. Young scholars for the purpose of this competition are doctoral students and researchers who earned their degree less than two years ago and do not have a tenure‐track academic position. For more information about Societas Ethica Young Scholars’ Award, please visit the website at www.societasethica.info. Conference website: http://www.societasethica.info/annual-conference-2015 __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __
InterPhil: CFP: Globalisation and Identity
__ Call for Papers Globalisation and Identity Melbourne Journal of Politics Volume 33 __ The Melbourne Journal of Politics is seeking articles, review essays and book reviews for the forthcoming Volume 33. The focus will be on the debates surrounding globalisation, its influence on identity and its effect on the analysis of world affairs in a number of regional and global contexts. We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplines with an emphasis on how the processes of globalisation have shaped the fields of political science, international relations, sociology and history. This might include: - Explorations of how globalisation influences the way states, communities and individuals construct and portray their identity - Evaluations of how globalisation has influenced the shaping of Australian identity in regional and international affairs - Analysis of the impact of globalisation on the role of international and regional institutions - Examinations of the influence and impact of global institutions on state and individual identity - Broader interpretations of concepts of identity from the above areas of study All submissions must conform to the MJP style guide, available at: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/mjp.html Please note that formatting is the sole responsibility of the author. The deadline for submissions is Friday 14 December 2007. All submissions should be emailed to: mjp-polit...@unimelb.edu.au Contact: Melbourne Journal of Politics The University of Melbourne Room 203, Level 2 234, Queensbury street Carlton, Vic 3053 Australia Email: mjp-polit...@unimelb.edu.au Web: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/mjp.html __ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
InterPhil: CFP: Globalisation and the Political Theory of the Welfare State and Citizenship
Call for Papers Globalisation and the Political Theory of the Welfare State and Citizenship 4th International Conference Danish Network on Political Theory, Aarhus University Department of History, International and Social Studies and Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg University Aalborg (Denmark) 4-6 May 2006 The conference is organised by the Danish Network on Political Theory, Aarhus University, Department of History, International and Social Studies and Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg University. The purpose of the fourth conference of the Political Theory network is to analyse how Western welfare state values, citizenship and conceptual foundations are challenged by globalisation. Confirmed keynote speakers are Professor Will Kymlicka (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) Professor Ruth Lister (Loughborough University, England) Professor Bryan Turner (University of Singapore, Singapore) Professor Jørgen Goul Andersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) The conference is organised around four themes, which represent new challenges to Western welfare states and social and political citizenship: 1. The tension between trans-national politics, equality and social rights; 2. The tension between universalism and particularism; 3. The tension between citizenship rights and human rights; 4. The tension between welfare solidarity and migration. Venue Aalborg University, Denmark. Time 4-6 May 2006. Organisation The conference will be organised as a set of parallel workshops and plenary keynote lectures. On the last morning of the conference, a round table will be organised with the participation of the keynote speakers and other academics. Conference website http://www.ihis.aau.dk/freia/ocs/index.php?cf3D2 Theme 1: Globalisation, Legitimacy, Solidarity and Equality in the Welfare state Keynote speaker: Jørgen Goul Andersen Republicanism argues that the legitimacy of the equal political and social rights depends on an underlying political community and certain civic virtues about what it entails to be 'a good citizen' including a feeling of solidarity between all members of the political community. Modern theories of the welfare state and citizenship more or less explicitly assume that this community is delimited by the borders of the sovereign state. However, globalisation challenges what we think about political community and solidarity in several ways. The emergence of functional or transnational identities challenge the 'thickness' of solidarity within the national context. To some scholars globalisation means that universalistic welfare states cannot maintain the principle of equality of social rights, which has been seen traditionally as the foundation of a high level of redistribution and solidarity. Others argue that the concepts of equality and recognition in relation to ethnicity, gender and sexuality are transformed in the light of globalisation. Papers in this workshop deal with questions such as: What are the conditions of legitimacy? What are the functional prerequisites? and, what is the content and scope of solidarity, equality and community in a globalised welfare state? Theme 2: Inclusionary Citizenship, Recognition and Participation Keynote speaker: Ruth Lister T. H. Marshall in Citizenship and Social Class (1950) argued that citizenship is a status, whereby citizens have equal rights and opportunities to take part in social and political life and influence political decisions. In his day, Marshall focused on the social and political inclusion of the working class in society. Since then the inclusion of women, a gender perspective and marginalised social groups have come to the forefront, increasingly, as new challenges to the universal framework of citizenship. Since post-Marshallian frameworks have raised new issues and debates about conditions for democratic inclusion and about the tension between the principle of equality and respect for diversity and recognition. Scholars have introduced new models of representation and participation for the inclusion of women and marginalised groups through the 'politics of difference' (Young 1990) 'the politics of presence' (Phillips 1995) and a broad concept of democratic participation (Fraser 2003). Ruth Lister (2003) has argued that the tension between the universalistic ethic of justice and the particularistic ethic of care is a creative one, which can be overcome by a 'differentiated universalism' and gives equal status to women and men in their diversity. Papers in this workshop address questions about new forms of participation, recognition and identities in a globalised world. What are the conditions and models for democratic inclusion of different groups of citizens in local, national and trans-national politics on different political arenas? Theme 3: Citizenship and Human Rights Keynote speaker: Bryan Turner The
InterPhil: CFP: Globalisation and Representation
Call for Papers Globalisation and Representation. Politics, Visuality, Performance, Construction, Reception 3rd International Conference on Globalisation and its Discontents School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton Brighton (UK) March 12-13, 2005 Key speakers include: Mike Davis, Susan Buck-Morss, Achille Mbembe, Charles Harrison, Lindsey German, Terry Eagleton, Sue Gollifer, John McKean, T.J. Clark, Kate Soper, Geoff Eley, Alex Callinicos. Bringing together academics, practitioners and activists, this two-day interdisciplinary conference investigates the implications of one for the other - the Global City, International Relations, Democracy and Economics, Virtuality and Representation, Texts and Locations, Globalised Identities, Objects and Spaces, Architecture and Design, Culture Industry Revisited, Imaging the Globe, Cognitive Mapping Today, Art and Ethics. Proposals for twenty-minute papers, or for complete panels (of three or four papers delivered within 60 minutes) in these or in related areas, should be submitted in the form of a 250 word abstract by 10th January, 2005. Further details at www.brighton.ac.uk/globalisation/ Contact: Anita Rupprecht a.ruppre...@bton.ac.uk Mark Devenney m.deven...@bton.ac.uk _ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
