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Call for Papers
"Human Rights and Values in Education"
Interdisciplinary Seminar
Presidency College
Chennai (India)
29-30 March 2007
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ABOUT THE SEMINAR
The Presidency college proposes to convene a two-day UGC
sponsored natioanl seminar from 29th to 30th March 2007,
emphasizing the theme of “Human rights and values in
Education”.
SEMINAR FOCUSES ON
- Globalisation and its impact on Human rights
- International Human Rights Laws and practices in India
- Emerging hope... A new regime of laws
- Human Rights culture through Higher Education
- A critique on Human Rights protective mechanisms and
challenges
- The role of national and state human rights commissions
- The role of Transnational and National Non-Governmental
Organizations
- Human Rights of
1. Women
2. Children
3. Dalits
4. Disabled persons
Papers are invited from human rights activist, lawyers,
members of NGOs, academicians and research scholars in the
above said sub-themes. Paper presenters are requested to
present of high quality research works with their own field
experiences and with critical comments. Every paper shall
not exceed more than 3000 words in MS Word format-New Times
Roman font-size 11 point, double spaced. Please follow
Chicago manual style for references and footnotes. Every
paper must also be accompanied by an abstract contain not
more than 300 words. A review committee appointed for this
purpose will select papers for publication in the
international publishing companies. The views expressed in
the papers are the views of the respective paper presenters
only and not in any way represents the views of the UGC or
the host institution. Both the full paper and the abstract
must be submitted electronically to [email protected] on
before 25.03.2007.
Registration fee
Individual Rs 200
Research Scholars Rs 100
Registration includes tea and lunch for two days of the
seminar, seminar kit and access to all papers of the
seminar.
Contact:
Dr. V.N. Viswanathan
Co-ordinator
Department of Political Science
Presidency College
Chennai 600 005
India
Email: [email protected]
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