Greetings to all,
Ian Robert Douglas, Mark Passera and Richard Shapcott are pleased to
announce the following. We encourage proposals from both established
academics and advanced graduate students to be sent via email, snailmail
or fax to the relevant addresses included below:
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JUSTICE AND POST-POLITICS
An Interdisciplinary Forum
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK
SEPTEMBER 1996
Recent years have witnessed a series of fundamental shifts in political
theory. There is much discussion about the arrival of the =ACglobal
condition=86, and with it new challenges and opportunities. While some
scholars have focussed on new dangers of domination and conflict, others
have sought to highlight the possibilities opened up by the =ACInformation
Age=86. While some assert the end of the state, History, and even of
politics itself, still others argue that power, ideology, and violence
remain embedded, their study being more urgent than ever. At such a
point of apparent fracture, when longstanding conceptions of politics,
practice, community, state and individual have been brought into
question, it is useful to focus attention on those elements that unite
scholars. One such issue of particular significance is a concern with
the question of justice. =20
In seeking to explore disparate concepts of justice, individuality,
ethics and community, this conference will aim to bring together
critical scholars from all approaches in a forum for mutually-informing
discussion aimed both to reframe the key issues of our age as we pass
the Millennium, and chart possible new endeavours in research and
enquiry.
=09CONTRIBUTIONS:
The organisers encourage contributions from a variety of disciplines
including: politics; sociology; international relations; international
political economy; cultural studies; geography; philosophy; film and
media studies; drama and other interested parties. The organisers are
particularly interested in papers that transcend disciplinary boundaries
to address a wider audience.=20
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=09MAJOR THEMES:
=09Justice and Technoculture=09=09=09=09 =20
Post-Politics and the Limits of Theory
=09Possibilities of World Justice=09=09
Justice in a Post-Sovereign Age
=09Justice and the Fragmentation of Community=09=09
Justice, Gender and the Political
=09Ethics and Individual Action=09=09=09=09
The End of History and the End of Politics
=09Justice and Death =09=09=09=09=09
Justice, Order and Capital
=09CONVENERS:
Ian Robert Douglas (tel: 0117-928-9000 ext.8076,=20
email:I.R.Douglas@bris.ac.uk);=20
Mark Passera (tel: 0117-928-9000 ext.8464,=20
email: M.Passera@bris.ac.uk);
Richard Shapcott (tel: 0117-928-9000 ext.8464,=20
email: R.Shapcott@bris.ac.uk).
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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL,
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS,
12 Priory Road, Bristol,
BS8 1TU, UK.
tel: (0117) 928 7898
fax: (0117) 973 2133
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