Call for Papers: Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Conference

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The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) is now accepting panel and paper proposals for the March 8-10 Conference in Miami. Proposals from all disciplines are encouraged, including but not limited to: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnomusicology, Film Studies, Gender Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Political Science, and Sociology. Panels should consist of three presenters and a chair/commentator. Individual paper proposals are also welcome. Papers can be in either English or Spanish. Please provide names, professional affiliations, email addresses, and a one paragraph abstract of the paper or panel you propose. The deadline for proposal applications is December 15, 2011. Please see the conference WEBSITE for more information.

Call for Papers: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Boundaries

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The program chairs invite papers for the ASEN 2012 Conference on the theme: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Boundaries. The conference takes place 27-29th March, 2012 at the London School of Economics. Abstracts should be submitted ONLINE no later than November 18, 2011. Please see the conference WEBSITE for more information.

Call for Papers: W. E. B. Du Bois 50th Anniversary Commemorative Conference

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The year 2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of Dr.W.E.B. Du Bois. On his birthday in February of that year, it is fittingthat Clark Atlanta University (CAU) celebrate his life and scholarship:Dr. Du Bois wrote his most influential works in the 23 years he spent asa professor at Atlanta University. Serving as faculty of the Departmentsof History and Economics, he taught at Atlanta University from 1897 to1910, and then returned from 1934 to 1944 as chair of the Department ofSociology. Dr. Du Bois also had impact in the area of social work and asa novelist, poet and short story writer. The W.E.B. Du Bois and theWings of Atlanta Conference will serve as a meeting at the crossroads ofvarious paths of Du Bois's work. Conference participants will engage inan interdisciplinary and international introspection of the life,scholarship and activism of one of the most influential intellectuals ofthe 20th century.

Announcement: ISA-NE Conference Program

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The annual conference of the International Studies Association-Northeast (ISA-NE) will be held this weekend, 4-5 November 2011, at the Providence Biltmore in Providence, Rhode Island. Panels will be convened on many subjects related to international studies, broadly defined, grouped under this year’s conference theme, Continuity and Change in Global Politics. The conference program has been posted HERE for your review.

Call for Papers: Policy History Conference

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The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History, and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia are hosting the seventh biennial Conference on Policy History at the Marriott in downtown Richmond, Virginia from Wednesday, June 6 to Saturday, June 9, 2012. We are currently accepting panel and paper proposals on all topics regarding American political and policy history, political development, and comparative historical analysis. Complete sessions are encouraged, and individual paper proposals are welcome. The deadline for submission is December 2, 2011.

Call for Papers: CISS/Keynote 2012 Conference

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The program chair of the Joint CISS/Keynote Conference invites paper and panel proposals on the theme Between the Global and the Local: Actors, Institutions and Processes. This international conference will take place June 24 - 26, 2012 in Prague. The conference seeks to address key dimensions of the interplay between the global stage and local in the context of the unique and, in many respects, unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Proposals should be received by November 30,2011. Please see the conference WEBSITE for more information.

Call for Papers: 4th Annual Conference on Governance and Democracy

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4th Annual Conference on Governance and Democracy 

Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Department of Political Science, City University of New York 

March 2nd-3rd, 2012 

Conference and Workshop for Graduate Students

Call for Papers: Imagining India As A World Power

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The AMBIVIUM INSTITUTE with the MAHARAJA AGRASEN COLLEGE, University of Delhi, invites paper and panel proposals for an international conference on the theme Imagining India as a World Power: Asian Politics, the Indian Ocean, and Balancing Forces. The conference will take place from March 1-2, 2012 in New Delhi, India. Proposals of no more than 300 words with full name, title, affiliation, and contact information should be sent to 2012India@ambivium.org no later than January 06, 2012. Accepted participants will be provided accommodation, meals, and conference materials during the two-day event. All conference papers will also be considered for publication by the India Journal of Social Enquiry from Delhi University after the conference. Registration Fee of $95.00 will cover materials and logistics for the conference, participants are responsible for their own airfare from and to Delhi, India.

Call for Papers: The Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference

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The University of California, Santa Barbara is holding an interdisciplinary global studies conference on a wide range of topics for scholars, both established and in the graduate stage, from the West Coast and beyond, under the general theme of "Crisis" as salient feature of current global conditions. Crisis may thus be understood at every level, from the economic and financial to the environmental to problems of legitimacy and human security, etc.  The conference invites papers and panels that engage with crisis from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences. The conference will take place February 24-25, 2012 in Santa Barbara, California and is hosted by the Orfalea Center and the faculty of Global & International Studies at UCSB. Proposals should include a 200-300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute presentation along with a completed registration form by Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Submit registration form by email attachment to: sbgsc@orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu. More information and updates are available at the CONFERENCE WEBSITE.

Call for Papers: 3rd Global Conference on Revenge

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Revenge, so we are told, is a dish best served cold: a ‘sweet’ wreaking of vengeance on those who have – either in reality or in our minds – slighted, wronged or in some way ‘injured’ us and who are now ‘enjoying’ their just deserts by an avenging angel (or angels) on the great day of reckoning.

This inter- and multi-disciplinary research and publications project seeks to explore the multi-layered ideas, actions, and cultural traditions of vengeance or revenge. The project aims to explore the nature of revenge, its relationship with issues of justice, and its manifestation in the actions of individuals, cultures, communities and nations. The project will also consider the history of revenge, its ‘legitimacy’, the ‘scale’ of vengeful actions and whether revenge has (or should have) ‘limits’. Representations of revenge in film, literature, television, theatre and radio will be analysed; cultural ‘traditions’ of retaliation and revenge will be considered. And the role of mercy, forgiveness and pardon will be assessed.

Conference Announcement: NYU Conference on Labor Studies and Academic Freedom

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NYU’s Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center Presents:

Labor Education and Academic Freedom

Recent attacks on labor studies programs violate some of the core
principles of academic freedom including the respect for the privacy
of students and faculty members to engage in free and open discussion
of ideas.

This conference will explore the current crisis in labor education and
the ways in which outside pressure groups are attacking labor studies
programs as part of a larger agenda to erode public support for the
labor movement.

Call for Papers: 5th Global Conference: Forgiveness, Probing the Boundaries

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This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to investigate and explore the nature, significance, and practices of forgiveness. Asking for or granting forgiveness can be a routine part of everyday life, but the nature of forgiveness as a personal, cultural, and even international practice can be complex. The acts of stating an apology and asking for forgiveness have also become part of a spectacle: witness moments of national significance to break with past wrongs. Forgiveness raises a variety of questions that touch on a vast array of academic disciplines – anthropology, literature, history, philosophy, psychology, political science, etc. In cases of significant transgressions, social tensions, and even international conflicts there are questions of what counts as forgiveness and how it moves from the level of individual to community, national and international relationships. This conference will look at the full range of this complexity. To encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations.

Call for Papers: 2nd Global Conference Images of Whiteness Exploring Critical Issues

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Saturday 7th July 2012 – Monday 9th July 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

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In recent years academics from a range of positions have increasingly turned their critical attention to the subject of racial whiteness. Publications include historical accounts detailing the emergence of whiteness as a racial category, cultural studies exploring the meaning of whiteness across a variety of locations, film and television scholars examining narratives about white people, reflecting white themes, white obsessions, and white anxieties. Consistent with the shift in critical studies away from minority identity formations to consider ‘normative’ identities, the study of whiteness is increasingly understood as central to understanding the operation of ‘race’ as a form of social categorisation.

Inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives are sought from those engaged in any field relevant to the study of whiteness including media and film studies, performance and creative writing, cultural theory, sociology, psychology and medical.

Call for Papers: IGU Commission on Geography of Governance - Annual Conference - Lisbon, Portugal, April 2012

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     CALL FOR PAPERS

    IGU Commission on Geography of Governance

    Annual Conference 2012
    NEW CHALLENGES FOR LOCAL GOVERNANCE
    Lisbon, 12-14 April 2012

Call for Papers: 5th Global Conference: Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues

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This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the contemporary experience of Diasporas – communities who conceive of themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political construction of collective membership living outside of their ‘home lands.’ Diaspora is a concept which is far from being definitional. Despite problems and limitations in terminology, this notion may be defined with issues attached to it for a more complete understanding. Such a term which may have its roots in Greek, is used customarily to apply to a historical phenomenon that has now passed to a period that usually supposes that Di­asporas are those who are settled forever in a country other from where they were born and thus this term has lost its dimension of irreversibility and of exile.

Call for Papers: 11th Global Conference of Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship

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Communities seeking environmental justice

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the role of environmental thinking in the context of contemporary society and international affairs, and assess the implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and global citizenship. ‘Environmental justice’ is conceived broadly as reflecting not only justice in the context of human communities but also towards other species, ecosystems, habitats, landscapes, succeeding generations and the environment as a whole. ‘Global citizenship’ is understood as an awareness of individual’s relative responsibilities in the global context.

Call for Papers: Pan-European Conference on EU Politics

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The ECPR Standing Group on the European Union is organizing its Sixth Pan-European Conference. It will be hosted by the University of Tampere, Finland from 13 to 15 September 2012. The Standing Group's Pan-European Conference is the largest academic conference on the European Union in Europe and brings together scholars working on the European Union from all over the world. The program chair will accept proposals for both individual papers and whole panels (including a maximum of four papers).  Proposals for individual papers should include the name, affiliation, and contact details (including email address) for all paper authors, as well as a brief (max. 150 word) abstract and paper title. Proposals should be made online. You can find the conference information on the Standing Group website . The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2012.

Conference Announcement: 6th Global Conference: Ethics, Evil and the State

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6th Global ConferenceEthics, Evil and the State
Sunday 6th May-- Tuesday 8th May 2012Prague, Czech Republic
Call for Papers:Ethics, evil and the state is an interdisciplinaryproject that seeks to interrogate issuessurrounding the relationship between the state,the concept of evil and alternative ways ofthinking about the state,

Conference Announcement: Millennium: Journal of International Studies Annual Conference

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The organizers invite attendance at the annual conference of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Planned to take place on 22-23 October 2011 at the London School of Economics and Political Science, this year's conference theme is Out Of The Ivory Tower: Weaving the Theories and Practice of International Relations. The conference will address the ways in which theory informs practice and vice versa in today's world politics. The conference is open to all with an interest in IR. Please see the CONFERENCE WEBSITE for the registration form and fees.

Call for Proposals: 70th Annual MPSA Conference, April 12 - 15, 2012, in Downtown Chicago

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Proposal Submission Deadline: October 7.    Submit a Proposal

• More political science research papers are presented here than any  conference - a thousand panels in all sub-fields.
• Networking - Opening Reception on Wednesday; Reception in the Exhibit Hall on Thursday; President's Reception on Saturday.
• Everything happens in the newly restored Palmer House Hilton in Downtown Chicago.
• Large Exhibit Hall to view new textbooks & discuss manuscripts; Job Placement service for any interested attendees.

Please forward this Call for Proposals to colleagues you think may be interested.

Founded in 1939, the MPSA is located in Bloomington, Indiana (101 W Kirkwood Ave, Suite 207).  Visit our website here