FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > >Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:17:38 -0500 >From: Wolfgang Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Wolfgang Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Colleagues: > >As with the first meeting of the Consortium held in May, >2000 in Lexington, KY, may I request that you post this CFP >to the general spoon list? The call and the conference >promise to be of interest to many of the individual lists >Spoon maintains (Foucault, Habermas, Frankfurt School, >Deleuze, Postcolonial, Derrida, etc). > > With best regards, > Wolfgang Natter > Director, University of Kentucky Social Theory Program > > >International Social Theory Consortium > >Second Annual Conference, July 5-8, 2001, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK > >Call for Papers > >The purpose of this Consortium and its annual conferences >is to organize the international social theory community. >This call on behalf of the Consortium is addressed to >scholars, faculty and students who work in the various >areas and traditions which social theory embraces (e.g. >sociological theory, identity theory, cultural theory, >political theory, social epistemologies, political economy, >critical race studies, science studies, feminist theory, >postcolonial theory). Since this is the first time the >Consortium has held a conference outside the United States, >we particularly invite papers addressing the differences >between European, American and 'other' perspectives on >social theory. > >The conference organizers invite 350 word abstracts of >papers, as well as proposals for panels and sessions that >promise to address the concerns of this community, >including the future of social theoretic research and other >issues that bear on the present and future of social theory >as a non-disciplinary or post-disciplinary endeavour. > >Please send abstracts or queries by January 31 to Centre >for Critical Social Theory, c/o William Outhwaite, School >of European Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, > >BN1 9QN , UK, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or fax + 44 1273 623246. > >Travel and Accommodation > >London Gatwick Airport is mid-way between London and the >seaside resort of Brighton, which is also easily accessible >from Heathrow and the other London airports. > >Accommodation will be available on Sussex University's >campus, superbly situated on the beautiful South Downs. >Details and booking procedures will follow in subsequent >mailings, as will information about hotels in Brighton. > >Streams proposed so far include: > > a.. Social Theory and its Publics: Making Spaces for Social Theory > Panels on > > Social Spaces of Social Theory > > Social Theory as Resistance (Deleuze, Guattari et al.) > > 'Whatever Happened to Values? The Value Debate in the 19th Century & >since'. Christopher Adair-Toteff (American University, Bulgaria) > > b.. Between Science and Literature: Modalities of Social Theory > Realism and social theory, evolutionary epistemology, memetics, etc. > > c.. Solidarities Beyond Borders > (normative international social theory, notions of global citizenship) > > d.. Democracy, Governance and Regulation in a Global Age > > > e.. Theorizing Culture and Identity >(Historical and current theories of nationalism, ethnicity etc.) > >Organizing Committee > >Ipek Demir > >John Holmwood > >Maureen O'Malley > >Anastasia Marinopoulou > >William Outhwaite > >Christien van den Anker > > > > > > > >----------------------------------- >The GREAT Network > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/greatnet/ >----------------------------------- > ------- End of forwarded message ------- ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker, Senior Lecturer Environmental Management & Design Division Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
