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Call for Papers "Empires and Nations" International Conference Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Paris (France) 3-5 July 2008 __________________________________________________ Sciences Po will host an international conference entitled Empires and Nations, organized jointly by the Ecole Doctorale of the Institut dEtudes Poliques of Paris (Sciences Po) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), with contributions from a number of other research centers, including the Centre dEtudes des Mondes Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen (CERCEC, France), the Institut Français dEtudes sur lAsie Centrale (IFEAC, Uzbekistan) and the European University of Saint Petersburg. There will be approximately 30 panels of 4 or 5 participants and 1 discussant; panel sessions will last 2 hours. Contributors from Eastern European countries, Eurasia and Asia are eligible for travel grants. Young researchers are welcome. The aim is to bring together specialists of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Western Europe and North America; also of Asia, particularly Central Asia but also China and Japan. The working language for the conference is English. Paper proposals are welcome from any of the below angles: - political theory, to elucidate such concepts as empire, imperialism and world domination; - ethnography, to analyze how local cultures are affected by being encompassed in a globalized space where cultural models tend have strong, widespread and even universal influence; - sociology of religions, which reminds us that Christianity developed within an empire and also that the Protestant Reformation worked to favor the assertion of national identities; comparisons with the Muslim world may be possible on this basis; - international relations theory, to shed light on the kinds of logic operative in political alliances and the foundations of imperialism, as well as on the erosion of political actors capacity for sovereign decision-making; - history, to show how the political forms of the various nation-state and empire types have evolved as well as the importance of language differences in the formation of political entities; - post-colonial studies, to analyze the effects of the major nineteenth-century European undertakings for obtaining and keeping power and inquire into hegemony as a temptation for democracies; - political economics, to examine market structures in the phase commonly called globalization; - political science, to examine among other questions the relations between the center and the periphery. Paris, for example, was the capital of both France and the French empire. The multiplicity of capitals - as in the cases of Spain and Russia - is a classic problem, but one that is also relevant for a country such as China. Timeline: Mid-November 2007: Call for papers Mid-January 2008: Academic committee examines paper proposals Spring 2008: Announcement of panel lists April-May 2008: Travel grants allotted September 2008: Publication of conference papers on line on a special conference site Contact: Professor Dominique Colas Director of the doctoral program on Russia and the CIS Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris 27 rue Saint Guillaume F-75337 Paris Cedex 07 France Email: [email protected] Web: http://mapage.noos.fr/dcolas/Empires_and_Nations.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
