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Call for Papers "Spheres of Justice" 2nd Critical Studies Conference Calcutta Research Group Kolkata (India) 20-22 September 2007 __________________________________________________ The Calcutta Research Group plans to hold each alternate year a conference on critical thinking. The First Critical Studies Conference was held on July 2005 in Kolkata on the theme, What is Autonomy? The second conference will be held on 20-22 September 2007. It will be held on the theme of justice. The provisional title of the Conference is Spheres of Justice or Justice: The Other Faces. The philosopher Etienne Balibar will deliver a public lecture as a keynote address. The public lecture will be held in Rotary Sadan Auditorium, Kolkata. The Conference will be ready to discuss whatever critical thought and approach generate on the broad theme of justice in our minds. With the spirit of the approach, we may have in mind the following problematic to be addressed in the conference. The list is however only indicative and does not exhaust the possible themes and sub-themes. It is also not necessary that there will be a separate panel for deliberation on each of these issues. Participants and panel conveners can get idea of the issues likely to be critically discussed in the conference. - A Matter of Methods: Philosophies and Ethnographies of Justice - Forms of Justice (allocative, distributive, visions, summary forms, dialogic, minimal justice, retributive, restorative, transitional, etc.) - Visions of Justice: Correcting Historical Injustices - Justice and Law - Cultural Representations of Justice - Administration of Justice: Justice and Governmentality - Rights and Justice: Justice as Supplement - Social Justice: Forms and Controversies - Is Feminism a Matter of Looking at Justice in a Different Way? - The Blindness in Perceiving Injustices Structure of the Conference: (a) It will be a 2 and half-day conference. (b) Public lecture and roundtables may be parts of the conference. (c) Panels will be invited to the conference. For submitting suggestions for panels, panel conveners will have to submit short panel statements along with names of proposed panelists. (d) Individual papers may also be proposed. Such a proposal can be submitted along with a provisional title and an abstract. (e) There is no provision for travel allowance, but full hospitality will be provided for a maximum period of 4 nights. (f) Papers will be put on the website; discussions will be led by designated discussants. (g) By 28 February 2007 suggestions about themes of papers and panels will have to reach CRG; by 15 March the first draft schedule will be prepared; by 15 May abstracts of the papers have to reach CRG; and by 15 August final papers will have to reach CRG. The Second Conference will have a special feature. Just after the conference there will be A Two-Day Workshop with Etienne Balibar on 24-25 September 2007. A select group of participants will be invited to join the workshop. On the first day Etienne Balibar will speak on his research interests, current research work, and his reflections on past work; and on the second day there will be question and answer session. In order to have an engaging workshop, CRG will the help of friends and well-wishers will hold a series of Reading Balibar sessions as preparatory to the workshop. Some of the participants may be asked to present papers on Balibar there for discussion. The organizers plan to record and publish the proceedings of the workshop. Contact: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group FE-390, Sector-III, Ground Floor Salt Lake City Kolkata-700 106 India Phone: +91-33-23370408 Fax: +91-33-23371523 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.mcrg.ac.in __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
