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Call for Papers Theme: Politics in the Global Age Subtitle: Sovereignty, Citizenship, Territory and Nationalism Type: 2nd Summer Workshop Institution: Centre for Comparative European Union Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Location: Chennai (India) Date: 6.–10.6.2011 Deadline: 15.3.2011 __________________________________________________ The Centre for Comparative European Union Studies (CCEUS) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) is organizing its second Summer Workshop at IIT Madras, Chennai on the theme of "Politics in the Global Age: Sovereignty, Citizenship, Territory and Nationalism". This Workshop is funded by the European Union. Target Audience & Structure of the Workshop: The workshop is intended for young faculty, doctoral students and senior post graduate students in political science, international relations, international economics, sociology, political philosophy, history and other related disciplines. Interested scholars are required to send a short abstract on any one of the themes of the workshop. Based on their abstracts, participants will be organized into working groups that must work together online leading up to the workshop. Each working group will present a paper that will be critiqued by the faculty at the workshop. Each of these papers will be published in a workshop proceedings. Selected participants may be invited to present a paper at or to participate in an international conference on the same theme to be held by CCEUS at IITM in December 2011. Upon selection, all participants will be provided with a reading pack containing core theoretical readings on the themes of the workshop. Working Group Theme: Working groups may select a topic addressing any one of the themes of Sovereignty, Citizenship, Territory or Nationalism in Contemporary Global Politics. Theoretical papers on critically examining the concepts of Political Community in IR or Cosmopolitanism in Social and Political Theory are also welcome. Participants must send an abstract of 500 words specifically addressing any one of the themes mentioned above. The abstracts must adhere to the following theoretical outline. Theoretical Outline: The normative turn in IR theory has led to critical engagement with themes of sovereignty, citizenship, territory and nationalism, taking the theoretical debates in IR beyond the Westphalian state. Ethical dimensions of political participation and representation relating to questions of multiculturalism and identity necessitate examination of inclusion and exclusion in domestic and global politics. The expectation of a movement towards emancipatory change in global politics is also accompanied by the rise of Cosmopolitanism in social and political theory. The evolution of “post-national” institutions especially in Europe and on various global issues such as climate change, global finance, human rights, migration provides the testing ground for normative assertions in contemporary international political theory. This Workshop will explore the theoretical and empirical linkages between the concepts of sovereignty, nationalism, citizenship and territory in global politics. Each of these issues is intrinsic to India and EU in their domestic, regional and global engagements. Negotiating the concept of territory is intrinsic to the processes of globalization. While many aspects of identity and political participation have been deterritorialized, newer territories have been respatialized. These representational spaces emerge out of an engagement between international law, domestic policy- making and political participation. These newer spaces may or may not be governed by traditional understanding of law and power in individual based or state to-state interactions. The Workshop proposes to understand these representational spaces in international law and politics and examine the accompanying power relations. Application and Contact Information: Abstracts (500 words maximum) and a curriculum vitae should be sent to: [email protected] The last date for application is extended upto 15th March 2011. Registration Fees: Selected participants are required to pay a registration fee of Rs. 500/- by a demand draft drawn in favor of CCEUS payable at Chennai. Upon selection the participants will be intimated about the address towards which they can send the DD. CCEUS will bear travel (by train within India) board and lodging costs for the participants. The Workshop will be held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras Campus, Chennai. Contact: Sonika Gupta Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai 600 036 India Tel: +91 44 22574500 Fax: +91 44 22574502 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.hss.iitm.ac.in/eu/secondworkshop.htm __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
