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CALLS FOR PAPERS | ARTICLES | PROPOSALS
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Social Research Conference Series
Sponsored by Social Research and The New School, "The series has as its aim the enhancement of public understanding of current critical and contested, social and political issues. The conferences explore these issues in their broad historical and cultural contexts." Dates and themes are typically announced annually.
CALLS FOR PAPERS | ARTICLES | PROPOSALS
Call for Papers - Hannah Arendt Circle
The Department of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, IL will be hosting the fourth independent conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle, April 16-18, 2010. We invite individual submissions for papers on any aspect of Arendt's work, including critiques and applications of her thinking. Please send an abstract of the paper, by e-mail (750 word limit). Abstracts should be formatted for anonymous review and submitted to the program committee chair, Tama Weisman at tweisman@dom.edu on or before November 30th 2009. Please indicate "Arendt Circle submission" in the subject heading, and include the abstract as a ".doc" attachment to your message. Program decisions will be announced by the beginning of January.
Program Committee: Tama Weisman, Dominican University; Sarah MacMillen, Duquesne University; and Peg Birmingham, DePaul University.
Our first three independent meetings were outstanding, and we are looking forward to the same camaraderie and intense discussion of Arendt’s work at this year’s conference. Each speaker will have approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion combined —papers should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes).
DePaul University is located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Lodging has been reserved at the Willows Hotel. The hotel is within walking distance or a short train ride to our meeting site at DePaul University. Program and other information will be available no later than January 30, 2010 at http://www.thearendtcircle.com.
Call for Papers - Rethinking Marxism
The journal Rethinking Marxism will hold its seventh international conference NEW MARXIAN TIMES, November 5-8, 2009, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. One of the plenary themes at this year's conference is Nationalism and Marxism, which will feature professors Partha Chatterjee and Halil Berktay.
We are also planning a series of panels on the same theme in order to extend the discussion. The troubled relation between nationalism and Marxism requires much more reflection than it has received to date. Nationalisms are significant forces shaping the political lives of countries and regions, and yet this significance is neither fully appreciated, nor sufficiently critically analyzed by the Left in general, and by Marxists in particular. The panels at the conference aim to reflect on the history of the long and tortuous relation between nationalisms and Marxism, as well as developing a critical understanding of the state of the relation between the two in their contemporary manifestations. The papers presented will then be considered for a special issue of Rethinking Marxism. We are inviting you to contribute to these panels. You can submit individual papers, or you can organize a whole session. In addition to submitting your abstracts to the conference website (http://rethinkingmarxism.org/conf), please circulate a copy to Serap Kayatekin at: skayatekin@gmail.com.Call for Papers - Eurocentrism in Political Theory
The Manchester Metropolitan University Workshops in Political Theory, 6th Annual Conference (September 2-4, 2009), calls for papers that would attempt to identify the problematic of Eurocentism in political theory (in mainstream theories such as the modernization theory, as well as in Marxism). Proposals of 250-300 words for 20-30 minute papers on are invited on a variety of topics. Click on the header for detailed information. Deadline for submission of paper proposal: April 6, 2009. (Submitted by Efe Can Gürcan)Call for Book Reviews - Choice
The political science editor for Choice Magazine, Mary Dudas, seeks reviewers in areas of their interest, but particularly for materials in political theory. Choice publishes nearly 7,000 reviews a year, providing academic librarians and faculty with the first appraisal of new scholarly books and electronic products. Reviewers are not paid; they do, however, keep the books they review. Reviews are short (190 words), and it is hoped that reviewers can evaluate at least three books during the calendar year, but they may review as many titles as fit their schedule. Interested? If so, complete the online reviewer application form. To receive an application package by mail, contact Mary Dudas, Political Science & Education Editor, Choice Magazine, 100 Riverview Center, Middletown, CT 06457-0465; telephone: 860-347-6933; mdudas@ala-choice.org. (Submitted by Mary Dudas)Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to featuring articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. For a full text of the call for papers, click on the link above (in pdf).Call for Proposals - Taking on the Political - Edinburgh University Press
The editors of the series, "Taking on the Political," have issued an open call for manuscript proposals. Books in the "Taking on the Political" series:
- are relatively short, ranging between 60,000 and 75,000 words;
- draw primarily from Continental thought;
- are not about the way a given thinker conceives the political, but about what can be done when using a particular approach or theorist(s) to think the political;
- "take on" a theorist, debate or theme
Polemicization is the distinguishing trait of the series. Manuscripts willing to run risks by venturing beyond the mainstream and interrogating commonplace truths are welcome. Click on the link above for details. (Submitted by Benjamin Arditi.)
Revised 11 October 2009