Call for Papers "Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities, Institutions and Inequalities" Graduate Student Conference Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University Princeton, NJ (USA) April 8-9, 2005
Keynote Speaker: Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University This conference offers an opportunity for graduate students pursuing scholarship in international and regional studies to move beyond the disciplinary boundaries that structure our approaches and thoughts, and to engage in inter-disciplinary interaction and conversation on a range of salient political, social and epistemological issues. The panels will focus on the following topics: Inequalities through time - Social inequalities - Welfare state development - Economic Justice global and domestic pursuits Transitions and Institutions - What is an institution? - Institutional change and challenges - States and Societies in Transition (regime change, rapid social change) Identity, Ideas & History - Idea Diffusion - Re-thinking Identity - Use and mis-use of Historical Examples - Conceptualizing Boundaries Please submit abstracts of 400-500 words online at the e-mail address given below by January 28, 2005. Abstracts should specify methodological approach, with the goal of communicating to inter-disciplinary audiences, and include a short bibliography (not included in word count). Contact: PIIRS Graduate Student Conference Committee Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Bendheim Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1022 USA Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~gradconf _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
